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Anybody feel the earthquake about 20 minutes ago up here in the Northeast
was sitting at the pc my chair and tv starting shaking for a good 20 seconds.
Niagara Falls area.



Yeah now confirmed
The United States Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 occurred 38 miles north of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada at 1:41 EST.

Yup felt it here I'm up that way and the whole building shook. Haven't heard any confimation if it was a quake or not. Least I can explain why my typing is so bad... :208- :30-

s^So_{,  t}tT^hHa_yt^t  x_Epl^La^Iin_nz^zS  It_T !!  :200- :200-  :97- :97- :97- :97-

A 5.5 magnitude quake is respectable, even on the west coast.  :89-

It's extremely rare but I have reports of 4.2 here in upstate NY...
I was in the pool at that exact time so I never felt it.
M wife saw the LCD big screen shaking like crazy as she was watching Judge Judy...LOL
I'm so far upstate that Canada is less than 15 minutes away from me.
One of our members, Westec1,  is extremely close to the epicenter in Ontario!
I hope his machines didn't fall over!!!

It lasted 20 seconds and was a 5.5 in Buffalo

We had one years ago when we lived in Erie, PA.... but they are rare....

we never get nutten in ct... i want a earthquake or a tornado :97- :97- i never experienced either :103-....

dude.. a good shaker in CT might change all those liberals to conservatives....

probably  :208- :97- :72-

I'm about 40 miles from the epicenter, it was a 5.5 and lasted about 30 seconds here, no machines falling over, lol,  
but it shook things up pretty good, every thing here is ok, scared the crap out of me though, were not use to these things up here

Wes






MODERATOR: Wes, I took your post out of the quote. SF :31-

Ya know, strange things with nature over the last 10 years. My in-laws outiside of OKC are getting earthquakes regularly now.  :103- Tornados in areas of the south that never had them before. I wonder whats going on?

 Dan (tacman)

Hi  Dan (tacman)

The weather is getting weird, we use to never get tornadoes up here, now we are getting them, especially in south western Ontario,
it looks like a couple of small ones in the Midland area touched down yesterday as well.

Wes

Well today we are getting ready to build an ark here in the Western NY area. Raining non stop for hours, thunder, lightning etc... My next life I am coming back as a weatherman it is the only job I know of where you can be 100% wrong ALL the time and still be employed the next day. :96- They said morning showers and then clearing with sun. Complete opposite and I trusted them and road my scooter today.. geesh :25-

Cyclic changes... as opposed to global warming.... things shift back and forth, as far as anyone can tell. Our weather rarely alters here in AZ... hot or hotter... hard to mess up :)

Now see what you have done!   :72- :72- :72-
Careful what you wish for.

Suspected tornado shatters largest city in Conn.           
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – A suspected tornado tore through Connecticut's largest city Thursday — a rare occurrence in the state — toppling trees and power lines and collapsing a building as a powerful line of storms swept across parts of the Northeast. Remarkably, no serious injuries were reported.

Hundreds of bricks shook loose from buildings, trees split in half and crushed cars, and a billboard hung precariously several stories up over Main Street. Rescuers searched what was left of a collapsed building before determining no one was inside.

The office of Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch declared a state of emergency after the fast-moving system of wind and rain.

Jacqueline Arroyo, 44, said she saw a black cloud and ran inside to her third-floor apartment, where the window exploded. Trees were blown so ferociously they appeared to be coming out of the ground, and people were screaming, she said.

"All the wind started coming inside the house. I heard 'boom, boom!'" she said. "It was so fast but terrifying."

A jail was without power, Finch said. The mayor urged residents to stay indoors and remain calm, and Gov. M. Jodi Rell was surveying damage to the city.

There were no reports of anyone trapped in buildings, said Assistant Police Chief Lynn Kerwin.

A Catholic high school, a museum dedicated to P.T. Barnum and several other buildings also had roof and window damage. Tree limbs and power lines blocked traffic on some roads in Bridgeport, a former industrial and manufacturing center of about 135,000 residents that has taken steps in recent years to revitalize areas downtown and waterfront properties.

United Illuminating reported nearly 21,100 customers without power after the storms, along with about 3,800 customers of Connecticut Light & Power.

There were unconfirmed sightings of a tornado, Finch said. A tornado warning had been issued for the area, but National Weather Service meteorologist Richard Castro said the agency would have to survey the area to confirm that one had hit.

Edward Beardsley said the noise of the storm hurt his ears and the force of the wind sent him to the other end of his house.

"It was a noise I never heard before. The noise — it killed my ears. My two cats still won't come out from under the bed."

Describing the storm, he said, "Everything was pitch black and going in a circle down the road."

Winds that were part of a powerful storm gusted at 78 mph at Sikorsky Memorial Airport at Stratford and blew over some planes.

The Connecticut storm was part of a system that destroyed a historic town hall and other buildings in Edgerton, Ohio, the night before, and brought torrential rains and high winds to the Philadelphia area on Thursday afternoon.

The storm contributed to the collapse of a church and a banquet hall in Philadelphia with no injuries reported, fire officials said.

Winds extensively damaged the roof of a day care center in Primos-Secane, but no children were hurt, officials said.

Power was cut to thousands in the area.

I was in Brampton for the quake, then drove to monroe county Mi,  the hotel evacuated the rooms to the main floor center hall due to tornado warnings,  the area had been hit 2 weeks ago and they were definitely shaken.  Some were staying at the hotel because their homes were hit.  It ended up being a bad storm (last night) but we made the best of the situation and played cards until the sirens ended.

Thanks,
Wayne 

could 2012 be coming true  :103- :103- :103-

hope not lol

Global warming is causing the earthquakes. :89-









 :200- :72- :97-

Nah - it's BP's fault with that leaking oil well.  It's letting the pressure out and the central U.S. crust is slowly settling causing more pressure on the Pacific plate down here in SoCal...

Check it out...
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/116-33_eqs.html (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/116-33_eqs.html)

http://www.logomyway.com/contestView.php?contestId=1746 (http://www.logomyway.com/contestView.php?contestId=1746)