EarthQuake?

[Brandy456]

SO, I was laying on the couch about to take a nap. Sparky laying in the kitchen, Babii in her cage, and my mom in her room.

I'm just falling asleep when, out of the corner of my eye I see our 42" plasma tv tip forward, then back. Then, at that moment I realized there was either an earthquake, or a train was ripping through our house.

I then saw the mirrior in the dinning room (probably around the same size as our tv) violently bang the wall over and over.
I either could save the tv, which was closest to mee, and would fall on some stuff (and potentially break) or the mirrior would slip down between the dinning room table (as it has before) with no damage.

I obviously ran for the tv, and caught it just as it was falling off the stand.

I screamed blue murder for my mom to wake up.
Then, as i'm holding the TV I see sparky run out of the kitchen, into the dinning room with his bum down (the way a dog would stand if you were about to slap his bum with a newspaper or something) then look around and screaming like he was hurt, so I went over to him and he just jumped in my arms. I went into the kitchen to check why he did that and a Crystal Antique bowl fell literally inches away from him, from the upper cabinets.

Then, while it's calming down I go outside to see the neighbor infront of us, his satilite dish fall less then 2 feet away from a young child (from the roof).

After it was all done shaking I went downstairs in the basement looking for Babii and there she is, sleeping away.
.. how could she not have felt that?!?!

Anyways, we're right in the middle of where it started, was a 5.5 magnitude earthquake that even reached Boston and Ohio.

So now, we're just waiting for the aftershock thats guessed to be just as bad.

Oh, and a 120 km/wind tornado, :grumpy

Babii is fine where she is, stuck her under a beam in the basement, in her hard-wire cage with nothing tall around her.

Sparky.. well him he's still shaking (which isn't good for his heart condition) but he's okay.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

40 years ago when I was in the Philippines while in the military, we had some Earthquake fun. Several of us where in a restaurant on the 27th floor of a hotel when a 5.5 hit. My best friends wife jumped up and wanted us all to run to the elevator. We told her the elevator was the worst place to be and all of continued eating. It was really strange feeling the hotel do the "hula" as it was shaking pretty good, but not as much of a "thrill" as having missiles fired at you.

 

[SOOOSKA]

I felt it here too Brandy but not as bad as you. My house shook, the wind chimes (yes I have wind chimes inside the house) were chiming, my computer desk was shaking.

The bunnies just kept resting which I'm glad.

Susan

 

[NorthernAutumn]

The officemates on my floor closest to Ottawa felt it, but not me!

(Mind you , I slept through the 2000 quake too, so my quake ESP isn't quite up to scratch )

 

[Luvr of Wabbits and Polar Bears]

I'm thankful I live where no Earthquakes can get to me

 

[kirbyultra]

Had no idea earthquakes were up there...

 

[Bassetluv]

After it was all done shaking I went downstairs in the basement looking for Babii and there she is, sleeping away. .. how could she not have felt that?!?!

LOL @ Babii! Thank goodness no one (or bun) was hurt, Brandy...and you saved the tv too!

I work in the east end of Ottawa, in a gov't building that is massive, solid concrete...and when the earthquake hit, it sounded like a very low rumbling of a freight train. I was sitting in my cubicle working on a document when everything began to shake...it was very surreal. I remember putting my hands on the desk of my workstation and seeing them shake (along with the desktop), and could feel the ground moving, and I remember thinking, "Well, this can't be good". Next thing I did was jump up and grab my purse, ready to evacuate. And that's what we all did. We were ordered out of the building (which, btw, was constructed to withstand earthquakes), and we stayed out there for about half an hour before the all-clear was given to return. About 20 minutes later I was listening to the news, and they were saying that many gov't buildings were being shut down. Well, someone forgot to tell us, so we continued working. I did take a quick look out of one of our back windows for a moment and noticed a long line of cars exiting via the back road, and realized that this was all the staff from CSIS (the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, or...the Canadian equivalent of the FBI). Their building is directly behind ours, and seeing them exiting their parking lot I had the oddest sudden vision of rats running from a sinking ship (LOL). Of course it wasn't like that at all...that's just my weird imagination. They were taking security precautions. And about half an hour later our building did the same thing, ordering all employees to leave for the day. Went home and checked on the animals, and they all seem to not have noticed a thing.

I called my son, who lives in Toronto, to ask if he felt the earthquake there, and he said yes, but it was mild; he and his girlfriend were home in their apt when it hit, and they both thought it was one of their cats clawing the back of the sofa! :biggrin:

Anyway, Ottawa was apparently only 30-40 miles away from the epicenter, so we did feel the intensity of it. Many traffic lights were knocked out and there were minor injuries reported (people falling from ladders, etc.).

And I must admit, living in a place that rarely ever gets earthquakes, or anything other than frigid cold in the winter...it scared me!

 

[Bassetluv]

kirbyultra wrote:

Had no idea earthquakes were up there...

Yes, we rarely ever get them (thank goodness!), even though we are situated on a fault line.

 

[degrassi]

I just got a call from my sister that lives in Ottawa. She told us about the quake and that at her office some of the ceiling tiles fell down and other stuff was falling off desks/walls. Then everyone rushed out of the building. She said it was pretty scary. She went right away to pick up my nephew from daycare. When she got there he was fine and the teachers said all the kids slept through it! They had to wake them up to get out of the building.

Hopefully there isn't too much damage from it. Its really freaky. Has there been earthquakes around there in recent history? I dont' ever remember hearing about earthquakes in that part of the country.

 

[Bassetluv]

The last time I remember an earthquake here (and actually, it was the first time too), was several years ago when one hit. I was sleeping in the back bedroom of my house and it woke me, but at the time I thought it was just a big truck going down the street. Learned later that it was an earthquake.

The one that hit today registered 5.5 on the Richter scale.

***oops, just found out it was downgraded to a 5.0. :biggrin2:

 

[Tweetiepy]

I'm at the epicentre too - I was near Ottawa when it hit, I,m on the ground floor - I was out the door with my bag before it was even over, thought I was crazy, only me and a co-worker were out there. Then everyone else poured out. We're on a 14 storey building, and the 14th floor buckled and swayed and buckled. Then it stayed buckled and I heard some bldgs in the area got cracks. I was starting my holidays tonite anyways. They wouldn't let anyone back in, some folks left their bags & purses inside with car & house keys and bus passes. I guess my adrenaline got pumping - folks on the higher floors said that it was like a bad roller coaster - queezy feeling. My mom lives across from a large mountain, she said her neighbor was outside and he could see it moving.
I hope to never feel that again.

It was felt up to Montreal and down to New York (as per World of Warcraft players)

 

[luvthempigs]

We felt the quake here in Ohio too, I was at work and I could feel my desk vibrating. I wasn't sure what was going on at first then we had patients come out of their rooms asking "did you feel that?"

Very odd feeling for sure.

 

[MikeScone]

luvthempigs wrote:

We felt the quake here in Ohio too

As did we in central New York state. For a moment I thought I'd gotten a bit dizzy, because the room seemed to be swaying a little. Then I realized it wasn't me, and the room really was swaying.

 

[missyscove]

I hardly ever feel the earthquakes any more, but I've definitely grown up with them.
I slept through the magnitude 6.7 that hit less than 10 miles from my house in 1994.

 

[~*sAbRiNa*~]

I slept right through it! I usually sleep like a log and only woke up when my mom called to see if I felt the shaking. Nope nothing. Although I dashed out of bed to make sure that Sabrina was ok. She stayed in her cage and was noticeably upset for a few hours but otherwise nothing much here.

 

[myLoki]

Wow. No earthquakes 'round these parts. Our natural disasters of choice are hurricanes and droughts. We're a land of extremes.:biggrin2:

t.:big wink:

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Earthquakes are scary! Brandy, I'm glad everyone (including the pets) are okay. You should consider anchoring your TV somehow so it doesn't fall over. It could kill Sparky or your nephew if it fell on them

We get lots of little earthquakes here. There are more earthquakes in Alaska than any other state (don't know about Canada!). There's certainly the potential for giant monster earthquakes up here- my mom was in the 9.2 earthquake in Anchorage back in 1964- but we've lucked out so far. The funny thing is that none of our small earthquakes (even the ones that have woken me up!) have scared the pets at all. Birds and rabbits are really easy to scare, too! I'm guessing it's because we have train tracks going right by where we live that shake our house multiple times every day, so the pets are used to shaking. Arthur and Luca did once wake me up with their screaming during a tiny, tiny little earthquake when we lived in Washington though.

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Shiloh, were you in Washington when that earthquake hit back in like...oh 2001 or 2003 (can't member the year... I was in 3rd grade.. shoot..probably 01)? I remember that earthquake.

There was an earthquake up in northern WA, closer to the border, a few weeks ago. My cat woke me up at the exact time the earthquake happened... didn't of course hear about it until I woke up later in the day and was watching the news. They said what time it'd hit, and I thought, Wow, my cat woke me up at that exact same time. Quite crazy, doubt he felt it though...probably just coincidence.

Emily

 

[kirbyultra]

Wow I saw on tv that it was near the border! Many NYers felt it too. None down in southern state NY though. Whew. Hope everything's ok up there.

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Emily, that earthquake was on February 28, 2001. My 16th birthday! I was in Austria as a foreign exchange student at the time. My parents lived in Virginia but were getting divorced and my mom was moving to Washington. She's had a HUUUUGE fear of earthquakes ever since the giant one in Alaska that she experienced, but she loves Washington. She just decided a couple hours before the earthquake to move back there, and called me right after the earthquake to share the news of the earthquake and that we were moving there. Funny that you were only in third grade!