Did you feel it?
A 4.3 magnitude quake centered in Canada between Ottawa, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec struck at 1:36 Wednesday afternoon.
There are no reports of damage from the quake, but some people did feel it as far away as New Hampshire, according to the USGS.
One person who felt it much closer is Sara Lomas, who lives in Montreal.
"It's kind of a cliche, I know, to say it sounded like a truck was going by," said Lomas. "I think more accurately it sounded like a truck going through the living room."
Lomas said she didn't quite know what it was at first. We spoke with her via Skype just hours after the quake hit 50 miles west of her home.
"We think that zone probably corresponds to an ancient fault," said Dr. Laura Webb, a professor of geology at the University of Vermont.
She says that old fault's at fault for a number of quakes recently, including a 5.0 in the same area last June.
Webb says, if anything, this 4.3 magnitude shaker will help us better understand what happened in Japan.
"Japan's earthquake released something like 32 million times the amount of energy compared to what just happened in Canada," said Webb.
Even though Webb says there isn't a chance of 'the big one' happening around here, it's making Sara stop and think.
"Your thoughts immediately go to the catastrophe in Japan," said Lomas. "It makes you realize that nobody is untouchable, of course, and it made me think am I ready for an emergency? Am I prepared? So in a way it's a nice little warning from mother nature."
The biggest recorded quake in our region was a 5.8 in Ontario back in 1944.
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