Magnitude 5.5 Earthquake near Ottawa

[Ray.R]

Happened at a 13:40 today.

Interesting experience.  Now we understand our friends in California.  😉

[Darin.K]

5.5 is definitely in what I call the 'fun zone'.  It is at the level where you know it wasn't a truck that just went by.  The bright side of living near a fault line is that I know in a few million years I'll have new neighbors.  Of course, given the direction of the San Andreas fault, that new neighbor might be altenbach.  There goes the neighborhood....

[altenbach]

I hope the building codes over there are sufficient for these kind of things. How often do you have earthquakes?

Seems it got downgraded to a 5.0, still significant. 🙂

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Ray:

Just read about it and thought of you. Hope all the wires in your vi's are still running straight 🙂

-AK2DM

[altenbach]

Ray, did you press that button again? 😄

[Ben]

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@Darin.K wrote:

... Of course, given the direction of the San Andreas fault, that new neighbor might be altenbach.  There goes the neighborhood....

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Imagine if property was identified by PGS  GPS coordinates. after an eathquake people could be playing the equivelent of "Musical Chairs" when everyones property "takes one step to the north" and that fancy grill your neighbor had is now yours.

Ben

*Which brings up an intersting twist on things. My buddy was reseraching the orgins of the name of my town "Library" and chased it down to the only lending librabry in this part of the state has located here. He found the old deeds  and chased it back to the original doc wheer Willaim Peen was given PA by the English crown. But it turns out the land was described in the dead relative to a fence along some farmers field and a stream that has since been buried. So we don't know where the orignal Library was.

[Ray.R]

Everything is fine.

It was interesting about the first jolt and then the dampened shake that lasted for approx 10 seconds.

I don't know how much anti-earthquake code is implemented here, but I think the towers downtown were designed with that in mind.  Apparently people in the tall buildings got more shaken.

My wife says the walls are fine and only 1 picture fell off a ledge.

I'm sure the 7.0+ quakes are more "exciting".  I think it will be a while before Christian becomes our neighbour, unless of course we actually move closer to one another.  😉  Hey..  I'm sure he cooks great BBQ's.  🙂

Nice story Ben.  That would explain "Penn"-sylvania  (was that his wife's name? 😄 )

[tst]

I happen to live inside a valley which runs along a faultline. The rift gets such earthquakes fairly often, but because it's several thousand miles long, they're not really felt throughout its entire length. Apparently, we're due to get a big one around here any mom...

[LV_Pro]

As I posted in "our other" forum, we felt it down here in NY, not to strongly, but noticeable. Some people called 911, not sure what the fire department/police are going to do. And if it was a big one, they would be doing it. Of interest to me is that Cornell University is part of a group called the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) and have a lab with a bunch of NI hardware, some running with LabVIEW where they are doing earthquake research. It is about 60 miles closer to the Ottawa epicenter than here, so they undoubtedly felt it too.

[Ray.R]

It was interesting to watch the news and see the damage 60 miles north of here.  Nothing substantial, mostly a couple of small bridges that gave way and cracks in some older buildings.

Nothing to cause a panic, although people working at the government did.  Then again, they panic at rain, wind...  heck, they panic at anything... 😉