Ever have one of those evenings where you’re just watching a bit of late night TV and then the earth starts to rumble. The first thought would be to bang on the ceiling or walls and tell the people next door to keep it down. Unfortunately I no longer live in an apartment and the rumbling was not caused by humans nor by my fat cat jumping off the chair.
It was an earthquake, but this earthquake was not as serious as Haiti or Chile, not the same at all. The cats bolted and the house shook, it was an earthquake. The epicenter of the quake was not that far from the house, close to the small town of Brownsburg-Chatham, I’d say about 28 or so kilometers away (that would be around 17+ miles). It’s not like I haven’t felt tremors, I’ve experienced those but this was different. This was a whip crack sound followed by a sonic boom and a shake and bake showing 3.9 on the Richter scale. As I said it’s nothing compared to the Haiti or Chile quakes but it was enough to get me concerned.

Here is a blurb from CTV Montreal