Jun 23

Natural Disaster Review: Earthquake, Toronto, East Coast, June 23rd, 2010

Written By Ricky, Everything ,Comments (26)

Toronto – So everyone will probably remember where they were when the G20 Earthquake hit. Me? I was sitting at my desk doing work. Then my monitor started wiggling back and forth and the floor was kinda wonky. I was like “hmm wtf? Earthquake?”. Quickly checking twitter, then facebook, I realized that yes, it was an Earthquake. It’s incredible how slow traditional media is nowadays. The Earthquake was apparently 5.7 and hit some place near Quebec.

Luckily for us, this Earthquake was not of the biggest proportion but yet, it is a bit disturbing because it follows the trend of crazy ass natural disasters happening all around the world in the past decade – Katrina, the tsunami, Heidi Montag, and the Earthquakes that rocked Haiti, Chile, China and other places. I’ve only come to the conclusion that Earth hates us.

This was not my first Earthquake, nor the biggest I’ve experienced. The biggest was the first day I arrived in Tokyo in 2008 and I was checking out the balcony in my hotel room. I got out there, and the balcony starting shaking and my balance was way off. At first I was like “this hotel sucks! the balcony is not working!” and then when i stepped back in, it was still wonky and I was like “am I drunk?” Finally, it was confirmed there was an Earthquake. Crazy stuff.

Where were you when the Earthquake hit?

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  • Caitlin

    I live in Ajax, ON Canada just 45 minutes out of Toronto. I felt it I was in my basement and it felt like the whole house was moving my computer desk started moving a bit. It scared the **** out of me!

  • Sarah

    I was at my desk. Thought someone was shaking my cubicle. Nope just a 5.7′er.

  • Victoria

    I was sitting at the kitchen table on my laptop. At first i just thought the table was shaking, and I thought the Fan was going to fall.
    So I booked it from under the fan, but It was still shaking.
    Thanks to Facebook , I found out it was an earthquake.
    fml.

  • Barricade

    I was on my couch watching TV, when my entire couch moved and began to rumble It felt like a bulldozer was slamming into my house. My dogs ran over to my and just Stared at me, then it all stopped. I called my wife and asked her if she felt that, and she said I was crazy. I told her off and then changed the channel to the news…turns out I was right…I WANT A DIVORCE NOW..lol

  • Sarah

    I was sitting on the couch, using the laptop here in Owen Sound, Ontario when the furniture, walls, and windows started shaking. LOL such a weird feeling. Immediately jumped on google to do a news search on earthquakes. Second time in my life living in Ontario I’ve felt an earthquake.

  • http://www.panicmanual.com/author/brian/ Brian

    I was sitting on my bed near the a/c ’cause I’m a sweaty bastard and the bed started rocking back and forth. They’re working on the storefront below my place so at first I just thought it was some kind of heavy machinery they were using. Interesting experience.

  • http://historyjen.blogspot.com Jen

    Yup, my whole house was shaking. I was in my dining room (where my computer is set up this week) working. I held onto my monitor so it didn’t fall. Didn’t realize it was an earthquake, but then I also realized I didn’t hear anything outside that would have caused such movement.

  • Dave

    I live 1-1/2 hours west of Toronto. I was working on my laptop and I thought I was having a dizzy spell or something but then realized my entire house was shaking. Quite a feeling to say the least

  • Jordan

    London, Ontario, on the ninth floor of a building. Things started to shake a bit (not unusual, given that they are renovating 90% of the rooms on this floor), but then the floor felt like it was moving up and down and my officemate and I looked at each other funny. Yep.

  • DON

    Derry/Dixie

    Top floor of the BDC building. Felt like swaying and shaking. The view from above made it feel like the building was swaying meters to one side, then the other. Evacuated and returned to work 20mins later.

  • B.T.

    I was sitting, using my laptop when I noticed a slight rumble, enough to think my roof was going to fall. I found out it was an earthquake half an hour later when I herd it on the radio that it was felt from Toronto all the way to New York. Freaky Stuff!!

  • Matt

    Damn, and I thought that lil blip was just the guys outside the building with the jackhammers…
    I’m going to be moving, cause I heard some cracking that I should NOT have heard in an apartment complex… Structural damage.

  • David D

    Yeah, I was surfing the web looking at some good asian porn to jacking off to then i felt the most powerful interally shattering feeling come over me. Yup, I had my first ejaculation at the age of 24.

    Then I felt the Earthquake.

  • Charity C

    I’m in sudbury, Ontario Canada

  • Charity C

    and I felt the earthquake while in class downtown :P

  • Tyler

    I was sitting at my desk all the way on the other side of Waterloo, about an hour and a half away from Toronto and I felt it

  • http://www.panicmanual.com Allison

    This is a shameless and awesomely effective way to get hits. Well played.

  • http://www.panicmanual.com Mark

    I was listening to the part of the Jurassic Park soundtrack where the T-Rex is approaching and the glass of water is quivering at periodic intervals. Dom. Dom.

    Then I looked at my glass of water and it was actually shaking, as was the building, and me.

  • http://www.panicmanual.com Gary

    I was in the lab doing atomic force microscopy – we first saw the tremors on the scope, needling moving and everything, and we weren’t amused. I thought someone was screwing around and kicking the table. And then I saw the 500lb air-cushion table shake. And then I realized that my lab really isn’t quake-proof…

  • http://www.wadevroom.com Wade

    I was sitting in a coconut office outside of Hamilton waiting for receipt to be printed since I had just bought 120L of organic coconut oil.

    All I could think was ‘so, this is how it all ends eh, aw nuts…coconuts.’

  • http://www.panicmanual.com Paul

    I was at my parents’ place in Woodbridge. Didn’t feel a damn thing. Either Woodbridge wasn’t hit or I’m really unobservant.

  • http://cretaceouslabs.com/blog Nick Hoffman

    Where was I? Sitting 8 feet from you!

  • Danielle

    Wade, I would have been more upset that I was
    meeting my end in Hamilton.

  • http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/ Joe

    “Natural Disaster Review”

    This is a great concept, but how come the review didn’t end with a rating?

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