Canadian Earthquake Jolts Hamilton

RFH 2010, News

Wed, Jun 23, 2010

Folks in the village Wednesday afternoon knew they felt something, but weren't quite sure what it was at first.

But within minutes, it was common knowledge that Hamilton, like most of Upstate New York and some neighboring states felt the tremors. The quake rattled Hamilton at about 1:40-1:45 p.m.

Colgate's Bruce Selleck, the Harold Orville Whitnall Professor of Geology; Director of the Harvey Picker Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study in the Sciences and Mathematics, confirmed it was an earthquake and said it was a magnitude 5 earthquake centered north northeast of Ottawa, Canada.

We asked folks about their reactions on our Facebook page and had these replies:

Lindsey Brandolini Hoham "... above Maxwells here in town - our whole building was swaying!"

Debbie Smith Alton "... Glad to know I am NOT losing my mind!!!"

Brenda Farrell: "...I felt it too - thought I was imagining it!"

Merideth Chapman: "It was felt in the Adirodacks as well...I've heard as far north as Toronto..."

Kathleen McClusky Stahl: "I did. I was watching the soccer game and my couch started swaying. I was looking for a truck out the window."

Hillary Tisdale: "At first I thought my cat was pushing the back of my chair…then 30 seconds later I didn't care."

Erika Croyle Perez: "Felt it here in town - thought it was a big truck going by causing things to rattle."

Sue Foster: "We felt it at Vantine Imaging ! Thought my co workers were playing a trick on me - my chair was shaking A LOT. Couldn't figure out how they were doing this? Then the computer monitors and windows shook.
We knew then it must be an earthquake."

William D. Ferguson, Director/Chief of Campus Safety at Colgate said, "We had a couple of calls from people that felt the shaking. Nothing more than that."

Check out the detail information on the quake at the US Geological Service website.

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