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Untitled Tentative Blog-Type Thing Entry #699965, added on 06-23-10 @ 10:27 pm EDT
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Around 1:45PM today as I sat on the couch reading I started to notice a tiny tap-tap-tapping noise coming from near the TV; it sounded like the noise the cat makes when washing himself, so I looked back, but he wasn't there. The noise seemed to emanate from the closed cabinet along the wall. Puzzled, I got up to go listen to it, and tapped it once or twice; it was like a death watch beetle was in there or something. Then I heard a similar noise coming from the dining room and went out to look. A glass ornament with a bluebird on it, hanging from the window, was gently tapping against the glass, and the rod to close the blinds was swaying too, as if some heavy traffic had just gone by, but aside from this all was still. Odd.
I listened carefully but there were no large trucks in the area, which often make the house shake when they pass. No traffic at all. The tiny movements kept up for about a minute or so; I at last pressed my finger to the ornament to stop its movements, and it did so.
"I wonder if we had an earth tremor," I mused aloud, not daring to glorify the tiny movements with the title "earthquake"; I turned on the TV and briefly searched the channels, but had no idea where to look, so gave up and returned to reading since I had a phone call to wait for and an appointment later on. I did take note of the time, as I often do when, say, I hear something that sounds like a gunshot but is likely just a car backfiring, in case police should happen along and ask what time we heard the shots. (Too much Law & Order.)
In the urologist's waiting room, I said to Ma, "I think we had an earth tremor today," and described what had happened. Then when I was in with the nurse for my procedure, she said, "I heard they had an earthquake in Canada." That's all I let her get out, for I clapped a hand to my head and cried, "Oh my God, I think I felt it!"
Or rather our house did, since I can't honestly claim I felt anything, but I sure heard something. Ma arrived home tonight and said her boss claimed she'd felt it and thought she was going crazy. The thought had briefly crossed my mind, too.
I logged on tonight and browsed Yahoo!'s main page for the local news; wonder of wonders, our usually useless and typo-ridden local paper carried a tiny article.
Ontario quake shakes the Straits
By Staff reports
Cheboygan Daily Tribune
Posted Jun 23, 2010 @ 02:33 PM
Cheboygan, Mich. — That rumbling felt around the Straits Area just after lunchtime Wednesday wasn't thunder, or a really large truck.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported a 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit Ontario at 1:40 p.m. Wednesday. Tribune readers reported gentle tremors in Cheboygan, Black Lake and several other spots around the Tip of the Mitt. Similar reports came from around the state, as far south as Detroit.
"Earthquakes across eastern Canada are definitely rare but we do have them," said Johanna Wagstaffe, a CBC seismologist and meteorologist. "There are small fault lines along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. There is a relatively active fault line that runs parallel to the St. Lawrence Valley. It's about 1,000 kilometres long." The last major earthquake we saw on that fault line was a 5.4 magnitude earthquake in 1998, she said.
Copyright 2010 Cheboygan Daily Tribune. Some rights reserved
http://www.cheboygannews.com/news/x383301146/Ontario-quake-shakes-the-Straits
So this is my first ever firsthand experience with a real live earthquake. Interesting.
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