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All Shook Up [Ottawa Quake]

StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
edited June 2010 in Social Entropy++
So there was a friggin 5.0 scale earthquake in Ottawa this afternoon. I was in an underground loading dock at the time and thought a huge truck had crashed into a wall or something. Scary stuff!

Then I got to take the rest of the day off!

check it out!

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Bois+quake+rattles+Ottawa+eastern+North+America/3191688/story.html

Anyone else have any crazy natural disastery type things goin on?

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Apparently this Earthquake was felt from Ottawa all the way down to Buffalo and West through Detroit.

    I'm still at work because I am not a pussy.

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Considering I'm in the same city as you chucklenuts, yeah.

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  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2010
    As if I fucking missed this.

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  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I saw this in the news and knew there would be a thread, because something happened in Canada

    edit: I bet earthquakes are weird, huh. I've never been in one.

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  • humblehumble Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    back when the Halifax explosion happened and our entire city was wiped out, we didn't get a day off

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  • John ZoidbergJohn Zoidberg Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Larlar wrote: »
    As if I fucking missed this.

    You could be a really heavy sleeper.

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  • StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Drew-B wrote: »
    I saw this in the news and knew there would be a thread, because something happened in Canada

    edit: I bet earthquakes are weird, huh. I've never been in one.

    it was like

    rumblerumblerumblerumblerumbleBANGrrrrrrrrrumble

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  • StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Meiz wrote: »
    Considering I'm in the same city as you chucklenuts, yeah.

    You work in a gov't building, right?

    Did they make you evacuate too?

    They kicked us all out and I had an hour left in my day. I said fuck it, I'll walk home in my workboots.

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Everybody in the office was like "IT'S A BOMB THE G20 PROTESTERS ARE BOMBING US"

    Hilarious

    I immediately thought it was a poltergeist though

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  • RabidDeathMooseRabidDeathMoose Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Man that would be strange to experience. It's odd enough when large trucks drive by on the street and make whatever I'm standing on tremble, can't imagine what it would be like to having a 5.0 or more quake happen for a while and feel it.

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  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Apparently it went all the way through Eastern Ontario and some of Quebec too! My sister and I thought it was a construction truck making the house shake until we went outside and saw a bunch of the neighbours looking really confused.

    CFRA was reporting some cracked roads downtown and a lot of shattered windows in Hull earlier, we got lucky and just had a few pictures fall down.

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I saw a tweet from a friend in Buffalo who said he felt it there, too

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  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKg4skHe3V8&feature=player_embedded

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFPMFa8xWhc&feature=player_embedded

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  • StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The epicenter was in Vale du Bois, Quebec

    I work in Hull and I didn't see no broken windows.

    Saw an old wooden telephone wire post that looked a little slanty, that was all.

    Oh and ten thousand government workers that were all talking loudly

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Drew-B wrote: »
    I saw this in the news and knew there would be a thread, because something happened in Canada

    edit: I bet earthquakes are weird, huh. I've never been in one.

    sit in a normal spinny sort of computer chair and rock your body hard side-to-side, that's a good simulation of how an earthquake feels.

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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Ahaha, 5.0

    Earthquakes are fairly commonplace in my neck of the woods. There were a few huge ones in the last few months, including a 7.2 in April. Once you get over the initial shock that the ground is moving they can be pretty fun.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    Anyone else have any crazy natural disastery type things goin on?

    well,

    it's almost 90* right now

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I couldn't hear it or feel it over the noise of my machine shop.

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    Meiz wrote: »
    Considering I'm in the same city as you chucklenuts, yeah.

    You work in a gov't building, right?

    Did they make you evacuate too?

    They kicked us all out and I had an hour left in my day. I said fuck it, I'll walk home in my workboots.

    Yeah, I'm over on King Edward. We went out, stood around for a few then went back in. People were like: Why is my cell phone not working?

    I was like: Ok, well, what do you think other people are trying to do right now?

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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Drew-B wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKg4skHe3V8&feature=player_embedded

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFPMFa8xWhc&feature=player_embedded

    These videos are hilarious. I love how the guy in the second video mentioned how he was afraid the place was going to come down, when it wasn't even shaking hard enough for the water to spill out of the tank or knock any of his stolen library books off the shelf.

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  • alternatingAberrationalternatingAberration I am the milk man My milk is deliciousRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Earthquakes, pff!

    Tornadoes is where it's at.

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  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    oh my god we had the ground shake mildly for 20 seconds aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Just more evidence that people need to harden the fuck up

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Fiz wrote: »
    Ahaha, 5.0

    Earthquakes are fairly commonplace in my neck of the woods. There were a few huge ones in the last few months, including a 7.2 in April. Once you get over the initial shock that the ground is moving they can be pretty fun.

    This was my first!

    I smoked a cigarette after and everything

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  • StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Meiz wrote: »
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    Meiz wrote: »
    Considering I'm in the same city as you chucklenuts, yeah.

    You work in a gov't building, right?

    Did they make you evacuate too?

    They kicked us all out and I had an hour left in my day. I said fuck it, I'll walk home in my workboots.

    Yeah, I'm over on King Edward. We went out, stood around for a few then went back in. People were like: Why is my cell phone not working?

    I was like: Ok, well, what do you think other people are trying to do right now?

    I'm the groundskeeper at LTDLC, if you're ever going there we should meet up and buy beer from the store in the building.

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  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Stale wrote: »
    Just more evidence that people need to harden the fuck up

    THANK YOU

    All my friends started spazzing on facebook and my family called me and it's just like holy fuck relax

    It reminds me of when places in Texas get like 1 cm of snow and everyone panics

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  • StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    It's not like there's panic in the streets.

    But it is something to talk about, there hasn't been one like this in like 20+ years.

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  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Fiz wrote: »
    Ahaha, 5.0

    Earthquakes are fairly commonplace in my neck of the woods. There were a few huge ones in the last few months, including a 7.2 in April. Once you get over the initial shock that the ground is moving they can be pretty fun.

    Yeah, we barely ever get any noticeable earthquakes here. The worst disasters we ever get are ice storms or some small microbursts, so people are pretty shocked.

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    We NEVER get earthquakes in this part of the country so people are jazzed omg is that okay

    IS IT OKAY TO BE JAZZED

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Redeemer wrote: »
    I immediately thought it was a poltergeist though

    wait, what?

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  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    It's not like there's panic in the streets.

    But it is something to talk about, there hasn't been one like this in like 20+ years.

    After the 20th text from my friends along the lines of "HOLY SHIT"

    And the fifth call from my family asking "Are you ok?"

    And reading about various places that just got the day off

    It has made me a bitter, bitter man

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I used to love it when people would visit during tornado season and completely lose their shit


    "Shouldn't we be.... like.... in a basement or something?!?!"


    Well, Tornados are just Nature turing into a sentient being of wrath and carnage... not real sure what good it's gonna do. At least enjoy watching shit fly around before the giant intelligent wind-God destroys you!

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  • StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Tasteticle wrote: »
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    It's not like there's panic in the streets.

    But it is something to talk about, there hasn't been one like this in like 20+ years.

    After the 20th text from my friends along the lines of "HOLY SHIT"

    And the fifth call from my family asking "Are you ok?"

    And reading about various places that just got the day off

    It has made me a bitter, bitter man

    I got one text and two calls.

    Guess more people love you, so you can feel better now.

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Redeemer wrote: »
    I immediately thought it was a poltergeist though

    wait, what?

    Oh, sorry

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Man, here in the S.F. bay area we're just waiting. Waiting for The Big One. It's coming. Probably soon.

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    BahamutZERO wrote: »
    Man, here in the S.F. bay area we're just waiting. Waiting for The Big One. It's coming. Probably soon.

    If I lived in California I'd probably have an anxiety attack thinking about it

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Hurricanes take hours to go away. Then again, we do get advance warning.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Redeemer wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Redeemer wrote: »
    I immediately thought it was a poltergeist though

    wait, what?

    Oh, sorry

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist

    No Redeemer, I'm more asking why would you immediately go to a poltergeist as an explaination

    Is there a poltergeist epidemic in Canada that they're not telling us about?

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Oh well my thought process for everything involves poltergeists in some way

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Redeemer wrote: »
    Oh well my thought process for everything involves poltergeists in some way

    then redeemer was the poltergeists

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