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Earthquake in Toronto?!
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BertramCooper
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Now that Canada is dead, it's time for America to decide which parts of it we want.
It's about time we add some new states, anyway.
It's about time we add some new states, anyway.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Just a 5.5? Pffft.Magnus said:
criesofthepast
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Actually my signal is still 5 bars but I can't text.
FUCK YOU ROGERS!
FUCK YOU ROGERS!
Kuro Madoushi
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Firestorm said:
Should get off Rogers just on prinicple :lol
AlphaTwo00
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Protesters...krae_man said:
bigdaddygamebot
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Kuro Madoushi said:
None of us (Telus, Rogers, Bell) are worth a damn.
LegendOfGood
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Felt it north of the lake (Simcoe).
HalfwayOrb
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fuck, i hope there's not a bigger one coming.
Kuro Madoushi
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HalfwayOrb said:
Is this an announcement of an announcement for a new EA game?
I'm sure all the news agencies are scrambling to update it right now.
BertramCooper
Banned
I'm in Columbus and didn't feel anything, but I just talked to my mom (lives 20 miles south of Canton) and she definitely felt it.
So northeast Ohio definitely got a taste of it.
So northeast Ohio definitely got a taste of it.
Expendable.
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Rochester also felt it.
AlphaTwo00
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The area isn't on any major faultlines, no?HalfwayOrb said:
EARTHQUAKES IN THE WESTERN QUEBEC SEISMIC ZONE
People in the large Western Quebec seismic zone have felt small earthquakes and suffered damage from larger ones for three centuries. The two largest damaging earthquakes occurred in 1935 (magnitude 6.1) at the northwestern end of the seismic zone, and in 1732 (magnitude 6.2) 450 km (280 mi) away at the southeastern end of the zone where it caused significant damage in Montreal. Earthquakes cause damage in the zone about once a decade. Smaller earthquakes are felt three or four times a year.
Earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains, although less frequent than in the west, are typically felt over a much broader region. East of the Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast. A magnitude 4.0 eastern earthquake typically can be felt at many places as far as 100 km (60 mi) from where it occurred, and it infrequently causes damage near its source. A magnitude 5.5 eastern earthquake usually can be felt as far as 500 km (300 mi) from where it occurred, and sometimes causes damage as far away as 40 km (25 mi).
FAULTS
Earthquakes everywhere occur on faults within bedrock, usually miles deep. Most of the bedrock in the Western Quebec seismic zone was formed as several generations of mountains rose and were eroded down again over the last billion or so years.
At well-studied plate boundaries like the San Andreas fault system in California, often scientists can determine the name of the specific fault that is responsible for an earthquake. In contrast, east of the Rocky Mountains this is rarely the case. The Western Quebec seismic zone is far from the nearest plate boundaries, which are in the center of the Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean Sea. The seismic zone is laced with known faults but numerous smaller or deeply buried faults remain undetected. Even the known faults are poorly located at earthquake depths. Accordingly, few, if any, earthquakes in the seismic zone can be linked to named faults. It is difficult to determine if a known fault is still active and could slip and cause an earthquake. As in most other areas east of the Rockies, the best guide to earthquake hazards in the Western Quebec seismic zone is the earthquakes themselves.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010xwa7.php#summary
thepatient666
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Felt it up here on Manitoulin Island too, pretty widespread quake.
GregLombardi
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Yeah I felt this in Burlington, Vermont as well. I'm on the 8th floor of a building there and my feet were all of a sudden feeling reverberations and then my plant and picture started shaking on the wall. Pretty crazy, my first earthquake as well!
user friendly
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We got evacuated 
But then we had to go back to worky
But then we had to go back to worky
Kuro Madoushi
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:lol Awesome comic!
I doubt we'll have any bigger ones any time soon. Don't worry, this part of the world isn't going to end, and our poor Leafs are still going to get owned next season.
I doubt we'll have any bigger ones any time soon. Don't worry, this part of the world isn't going to end, and our poor Leafs are still going to get owned next season.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
So Ottawa got the best of it? Lucky fucks.
I felt it in Quebec city. Was in my fifth floor apartment and the whole building started to gently rock. Having never experienced an earthquake before, it was definitely strange.
I have tried calling my family in Windsor, ON but I can't through. I use a calling card and I can get through to them (the calling card company), so I assume the phone troubles are not on my end.
I have tried calling my family in Windsor, ON but I can't through. I use a calling card and I can get through to them (the calling card company), so I assume the phone troubles are not on my end.
criesofthepast
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CBC says this happens about every 10 years along the Quebec-Ontario border.
I call dibs on making the 2020 Toronto Earthquake thread.
I call dibs on making the 2020 Toronto Earthquake thread.
Kuro Madoushi
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DoctorWho said:
I'm not sure if you work for a big corporation or not. They really should've evacuated cause if it had been a precursor to something bigger, some heads and lawsuits would be flying!
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