5.5 Eastern Quake

3:44 Update: The quake has been adjusted to a 5.0 by the USGS and it was centered near Buckingham, Quebec. Shortly afterwards a 3.0 aftershock was reported as well. No damage so far, lots of frayed nerves especially in Ottawa and Toronto.

Yes it was a quake at about 1:41 pm this afternoon, felt across many areas of Quebec and Ontario. It measured 5.5 according to the USGS and was centered 39km north of Cumberland, Ontario.

Here is the event page link Eastern Quake

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2:24pm Update: It was felt from Windsor to Montreal south to Albany. Several buildings in Ottawa and Toronto were evacuated.

From CBC.ca "Earthquakes across eastern Canada are definitely rare but we do have them," said Johanna Wagstaffe, a CBC seismologist and meteorologist. "There are small fault lines along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. There is a relatively active fault line that runs parallel to the St. Lawrence Valley. It's about 1,000 kilometres long." The last major earthquake we saw on that fault line was a 5.4 magnitude earthquake in 1998, she said.