Small earthquake in my region

[Laurentien2]

A 3.7 earthquake shook my region an hour ago. Nothing to compare to the Japan one but last year we had one the day after the Chilean earthquake and this one 5 days after the one in Japan.

Magnitude 3.7
Date-Time

* Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 17:36:56 UTC
* Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 01:36:56 PM at epicenter

Location 45.609°N, 74.619°W
Depth 0 km (~0 mile) (poorly constrained)
Region ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA
Distances

* 50 km (31 miles) W (262°) from Mirabel, Qu�bec, Canada
* 52 km (32 miles) WSW (249°) from Saint-J�r�me, Qu�bec, Canada
* 54 km (34 miles) NW (316°) from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Qu�bec, Canada
* 69 km (43 miles) W (276°) from Laval, Qu�bec, Canada
* 82 km (51 miles) W (277°) from Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 2.5 km (1.6 miles); depth +/- 5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Parameters NST= 18, Nph= 31, Dmin=78.7 km, Rmss=0.89 sec, Gp=187°,
M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (mbLg), Version=a

 

[andi]

Laurentien, it is an interesting remark.
Thanks for the heads up. :)

A 3.7 earthquake shook my region an hour ago. Nothing to compare to the Japan one but last year we had one the day after the Chilean earthquake and this one 5 days after the one in Japan.

Magnitude 3.7

edit: I wonder if you felt anything. I for one woke up with a big headache, but that may not be it -headaches are frequent for me.

 

[Laurentien2]

Laurentien, it is an interesting remark.
Thanks for the heads up. :)

A 3.7 earthquake shook my region an hour ago. Nothing to compare to the Japan one but last year we had one the day after the Chilean earthquake and this one 5 days after the one in Japan.

Magnitude 3.7

edit: I wonder if you felt anything.

I for one woke up with a big headache

, but that may not be it -headaches are frequent for me.

Funny that you bring that up andi. When my daughter came back from school, I asked her he she felt the earthquake. She said yes and she told me that her teacher felt severe headache after. By the way, Natural Resources Canada, report that it was a 4.3 earthquake.

http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent_eq/2011/20110316.1736/index-eng.php

2011-03-16: M=4.3 - 5 km ESE of Hawkesbury, ON - felt
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Earthquake Information
Wednesday March 16, 2011
Local Time: 13:36:55 EDT
Magnitude: 4.3 MN
Latitude: 45.58 North
Longitude: 74.55 West
UT Date
and Time: 2011-03-16
17:36:55 UT

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6 km SE from Hawkesbury, ON. Felt WESTERN QUEBEC SEISMIC ZONE. The earthquake of March 16, 2011 occurred in the western Quebec seismic zone. The depth of this earthquake is 12.8 km. On average, we record 100-150 mostly small earthquakes in the region every year. Magnitude 4 events occur on average once every 2-3 years in this region. This event (mN 4.3) is roughly 1/10 the size of the June 23, 2010 Val-des-Bois earthquake (Mw5.0) and 75 km to the southeast. This earthquake was widely felt between Ottawa and Montreal. No significant damage has been reported and none would be expected for an event of this size.

I don't know why every time their is an earthquake here, the U.S. geology service and the Canadian seismograph disagree on the strength. The U.S. always down rate it by many point. Last year 5.5 by Canadian estimate was down rate to a 5 and today again they down rate it by .6.

 

[Jimbofirstround]

there was a small tremor last fall early fall i think here in ontraio and qeubec in 2010, but have no fear this area is a safe zone from quakes because ofbeing on the great canadian shiled,

i checked out some "disaster" predictions where water levels and other things like faults and quakes and stuff are sort of predicted what would be the effects and this area of canada is quite safe, the main concern you could have in this area is flooding, 200feet above sea level is recommended to avoind any serious permanent, (hehe yes i know nothin is permanent) flooding

however if we look at how much ice was around on the earth during the time of the 3 great floods, circa 12,000 bc, 10,500 bc(the big one) and i think its like 8-9,000 bc the water levels only rose maximum 400 feet then, we dont have enough ice to melt if it all melted to really raise the sea level more than 200feet

also based on crust shifts and pole shift predictions we can look forward to a more closer to semi tropical weather here, and i dont know about other canadians but i have had enough cold snowy winters to last a million lifetimes


of course this all is only relelvant IF those types of world events occur, if the wave in fact changes the whole earth at once to 4d i would doubt any of this is important

:) have a nice day