Earthquake?

[vaneramos]

I'm curious to know whether we experienced a minor earthquake just now. The bookshelf near my computer vibrated for a few seconds in an unprecedented manner, and I heard no sound or disturbance in the house. At the same instant I felt a brief sensation of vertigo. This area doesn't experience much seismic activity, but I've felt two minor earthquakes before.

Comments

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

The USGS doesn't register an earthquake anywhere the Canadian border, but then I don't know how recently they've updated their map; is there a Canadian equivalent to the USGS?

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Environment Canada undoubtedly offers a service, but I'm at a loss to find it. Earthquakes in Ontario are invariably small or imperceptible. It's not a thing one gives much thought to.

[robearal.livejournal.com]

I experienced a tremor in 1985 just north of Detroit. Very creepy, since you don't expect seismic activity in that area.

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

Earthquakes in Eastern Canada, from the government

Is this what you found?

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

The last one I felt was in 1984 or 1985, doing homework at my desk in residence at university. Didn't know what it was until later.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Oh thanks. You are a better and more patient searcher than me. It doesn't look like I could have felt anything. Must have been furniture moving somewhere in this old house.

[leafshimmer.livejournal.com]

It was probably a bunch of your house Faeries doing the rhumba around that bookshelf. They can be randy, naughty AND disorderly (and such wonderful creatures they are too).

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad; remember, it's kind of my job to find information...

house Faeries as earthquake cause

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

Is that why San Francisco gets so many earthquakes and Michigan gets none at all?

Oh, wait...were you talking about the weenie little supernatural kind of Faeries?

Re: house Faeries as earthquake cause

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

ROFL