... I'm in the mountains.......far away from the ocean. But we can get a earthquake. I've never felt one though ...
Who would think someone living in the St. Lawrence Lowlands would have felt five (5) earthquakes during his tenure on this big rock? Yeah, me either. But we did have a couple in the 3.5 - 4.0 magnitude when we lived in Pickering. They both felt like that huge clap of thunder right over head with the resulting rumble lasting for about 90 seconds. It was an eerily odd sensation ... but eventually, the long rumbles subsided
Two more shakers with very similar effects hit a couple of times when I was working on the 24th floor of The Hudson's Bay Centre. Everyone just stopped and looked at each other like "It was nice knowin' ya!". It was frightening to feel movement like that some 240 feet above the sidewalks ... but eventually, the building stopped swaying
Best one was in the 7th floor of the hotel we were staying at in Lima while adopting our daughter in April 1989. A shorter duration but a larger magnitude. The vibrations moved the chairs we were still sitting in across the tile floor. There was a building under construction across the street and the rebar poking out of the support columns were swaying like palm trees in a thunderstorm. With building codes in Peru not quite what they are in Ontario, we both thought we were done for ... but eventually, our chairs stopped moving.
Eventually, I am going to tire of being in all these earthquakes
