[smartd]

Originally Posted by JustPlaneNuttz

We don't get too many here in Ontario, but we have had a few that I remember. One does stand out. It was a lazy Sunday in the summer and I was sitting on the balcony of my 13th floor (they called it a 'penthouse' to avoid 'lucky 13'!) apartment in Hamilton and all of a sudden the walls went liquid (similar to Skunky's description) and everything started banging back and forth. I just grabbed my house keys and bolted out of there. As I tore down the stairs 2-by-2 in my bare feet, I could see fine-line cracks developing in the walls -- and following me down! Needless to say, I was VERY concerned!!!!! I got to the lobby, everything stopped and I was the only person down there. It's like no one else was home. I found out later that the quake started in Kentucky and all WE got was the aftershock! This was about 1981-3? I can't quite remember. Smartd may remember this, if it wasn't before his time there.
JPN

I was in Toronto at that time and it was felt there also.
We had one in the early nineties when I had moved to Hamilton. I remember sitting on a couch as the couch, room and myself all moved independent of each other. Was a really weird sensation.

We get minor quakes up through our area of Ontario quite frequently. There is a fault line running through Lake Ontario near the Pickering Nuclear Power Station. The fault runs north south through NY State and Ontario but is not particularly threatening.

[tank nut]

Wow, I never knew that , that is a scary, we get them up north in new bruswick but they are small and very rare at that. If you guys had a big one up there that could do some real damage!

[smartd]

Originally Posted by tank nut

Wow, I never knew that , that is a scary, we get them up north in new bruswick but they are small and very rare at that. If you guys had a big one up there that could do some real damage!

We keep hoping that Ottawa has the big one when Parliament is in session.

[tank nut]

[flyXwire]

Originally Posted by STARMAN 352ND

Living up here in Northern Calif we seem to get earthquakes a lot more now then we used too.
But there little like 3.5 to 4.0 type...You know Fly i was on the north end of that Bay bridge in 1989 and no
more then 5 mins later that earthquake hit and cars were rolling all over the road felt like i had a flat tire at first..
Very uneasy feeling too.
JP

I was inside a labratory when the quake hit....it was a 'rolling S-wave' shaker, IIRC....and that wasn't so fun at all!
I guess the predicted "Big One" hasn't arrived yet, so knocked on wood or concrete, JP!

[jim]

Maybe, and I pray its true, that if you have all those little quakes in California it will ease the pressure and stop a big one building up.

5.1 or 2 is an interesting experience but any more than that I hope neither I nor any of you guys ever have to experience.

[MoMo]

Was there an earthquake ?

[jim]

MO , I said only a spoonful of whiskey, a full bottle of that stuff and you can sleep through Krakatoa erupting.

[TopHat]

jim, were you driving?

[Hurriup!]

So Jim you could borrow the Bond line and say you were "shaken not stirred" so to speak. Glad to here that none of our UK brothers were harmed.