48 Replies to “Mag 5.0 Hits Ontario”

  1. Felt it here in Bowmanville. Was sitting out on my patio working on my newest book, when the patio began wobbling at about 5 – 6 Hz. Whoa! Lasted about 10 to 15 seconds.
    Obviously, someone, somewhere, is dressed inappropriately.

  2. No big deal here in Southwestern Ontario. Never noticed a thing. Of course we are not near the COTU ( Center of The Universe-Toronto) where buildings were evacuated.
    It was a non-event.

  3. First the G20 and now this; Toronto has got to be shuddering and waiting for the next plague to visit them.

  4. All of my students felt it — who were quietly sitting and hanging on my every word: NOT! — while I didn’t, seeing as I was walking, talking, and waving my arms around — that’s called “teaching.”
    They all said, “Things are moving. What is it? Is it an earthquake?” I looked at my watch, and it said about 1:43.
    I told them to watch the news and that I suspected that if it was an earthquake, it originated in Quebec. (I didn’t tell them that it was probably just the G-8, leading up to the G-20.)

  5. I think this is traffic jam on 401 at Pearson resonating, courtesy Mr. Harper.
    We were told that Toronto will be jammed for the weekend. This is f-n Wednesday and the most important HW in the city is packed and the 2nd most important is closed until 5am Thursday.
    The handling of 427 closure is below kindergarten level – they posted notices after the last opportunity for the drivers to take other exits.
    Come election I’ll take my revenge, SOB!

  6. @atric,
    22 years ago my wife & I had a condo in the Horizon-on-Bay when a 4.mumble earthquake happened. We lived on the fifth floor. That quake *seemed* much worse than this one that I experienced in my house. In 1988, at first I thought something had exploded just outside the building, there was such a rumble.
    Tall buildings can sometimes magnify the tremors of a quake, with something like a whiplash effect.

  7. Has Prentice lost it so throughly that he doesn’t know how his constituents power their light bulbs?
    wow. I guess the thing is, the alternatives in his region are likely worse, and that leaves us to vote for whom?
    who else is there?

  9. I really felt it here at work in Ottawa,for about 30 seconds I would guess.I thought something had hit the building.
    I now know what those people in Tower one initially felt.
    Everyone outside tried to use their cell phones but they weren’t working.

  10. Why are these Ottawa earthquakes too lame to finish the job right – wait don’t answer that – let’s call it “Terroir”.

  11. I watched it moving the coats in my closet for a good thirty seconds. The first little surge had me heading for the door, but after it didn’t get any worse I just waited for it to stop. The coats swayed about an inch, substantial amount of movement for a house I’d say.
    People move -to- California? Nuts, all of them!

  12. Any windmills come down?
    (it could have been at useful instead of just an inconvenience.)

  13. Well – I was out and didn’t feel a thing but when I came home, a few cards and posters had shuffled themselves off the bookshelves to the floor.
    It took place on the border between Ontario and Quebec. One pundit declared that it meant that finally, Quebec was separating from the Rest of Canada.

  17. Obviously cleavage was being dispalyed somewhere within a 500 km radius
    Ala Snackbar

  18. WTF? Is everyone who comments here from Ontario?
    Prentice really is an out of control, vindictive son of a gun. He really has it in for anything related to coal. I read that he worked summers in a coal mine, to put himself through university. He must have really hated that job.

  19. Did they call out the army in Toronto?
    As far as Prentice is concerned, I guess I will just have to continue to keep my wallet closed when they phone. That guy must have been too close to fast Eddy Stelmak for too long.

  21. Was walking out of my office building when it hit. Walked a little faster.
    Re: Prentice, by all means, shut down the coal-fired plants. Just tell me first – where are you going to get the 3.640 GW of electricity (roughly 3 large nuke plants worth) that Nanticoke alone generates?
    BTW, at a 25% capacity factor, that’s about 7200 giant wind turbines. At 0.25 sq km apiece that’s 1800 square kilometres of space to deploy them. And at about USD $4.5M per 2 MW turbine that’s about $30B to install.
    Guess my taxes are going up. Again.
    Somebody remind me…what PARTY does Prentice represent?

  22. I returned to the house this afternoon to find a mess scatterred everywhere….just the way I left it this morning!
    But I’ve got to wonder, does it make a lot of sense for office workers to evacuate their highrise buildings and go stand directly below them in the street, waiting for some loosened window or sheet metal to come sailing down and decapitating them?? Now politicians, journalists, lawyers, well that’s different.(:>D)

  23. How does it feel to live in Egypt e…..r Toronto.
    Looks awfully bad for the city when the plagues of Moses visits it.
    I wonder vehicle people are called out to go?

  25. Well, Prentice might have been alright before he headed to Copenhagen, where he learned to get ‘his head right’ by those UN thuggies and Obama cronies. They were so poorly prepared for the onslaught of the East Anglia E-mails. They scurried about like the rats they are and laid low with their plans intact it seems. And, now, when ‘nobody is looking’ and right before the G20 he comes out with this nonsense about greenhouse gas emissions, blah, blah, blah.. did we not establish conclusively that we cannot afford ‘cap and tax’ either US style or Canuckistan style.
    I’m with Kate… where’s a good bridge when you need it.

  26. “Such plants are responsible for nearly a fifth of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. ”
    IT would be nice to know how much of Canada’s energy is generated ‘such plants’.
    Or, for that matter, how Prentice proposes how to replace that energy.
    With rainbows and fairy dust, I suppose.
    If I hadn’t already written off my support for the Conservatives, I’d do so now.

  27. 20 or maybe more years ago the Swedes voted to shut down their nuclear energy plants. The process has begun and now the big debate in Sweden is how they are going to keep their lights on? They didn’t get around to building an alternate source of energy. I’ll go along with Prentice if we immediately begin construction of new nuclear plants.

  28. @marc in calgary: your alternative is to vote Libertarian or one of the rightist alternatives to the CPC. Anybody But Conservative.

  29. Having lived for quite a few years in Vancouver, got to the point where earthquakes were no big deal. Was in my office when the magnitude 8 earthquake hit Seattle and felt the building shake and sway but kept on seeing patients and no-one felt the need to evacuate downtown Vancouver office buildings.
    I’m hoping there’s going to be a retraction of Prentice’s moronic statement soon; if not, and there’s no massive nuclear reactor construction program announced, I’m voting libertarian in the next election. Has anyone in Ottawa heard of climategate?
    If this plan goes ahead Albertans still pissed off the the NEP might really get to see “the eastern bastards freeze in the dark”. Windmills don’t work that well on those -30 C sunny windless days.

  30. Prentice has not only lost my vote, I will work during the next election to get him defeated.
    Perhaps the WRA will run some candidates federally.

  31. Prentice is a lunatic, I have no party to vote for and I have farted with worse results than the 5.0 here this afternoon.

  33. I just sent this e-mail to the illustrious Jim Prentice. Many more of us should do likewise.
    Minister Prentice June 23/10
    I just read that you are “about to announce” that Canada will phase out all thermal-coal power plants over “the next few years”. Will you also announce the immediate construction of 3 or 4 nuclear power plants to replace the lost capacity? Or will you just accept the loss of a few dozens seats in the next election as fed up voters in Saskatchewan and Alberta [and NS] finally give up on your supposedly Conservative party in favour of Libertarian options or not voting at all?
    Do you actually accept the “CO2 is evil” nonsense? Didn’t you learn anything from Climategate and/or the dozens of books and papers published since then dismantling the AGW tripe? Have you not heard even the Warmists admit that Earth is likely entering a 30 year cooling phase? Please don’t tell me you think windpower is ever going to be anything but a fringe source of electricity funded exclusively by government subsidy [i.e. my taxes] ; it sure as heck isn’t going to keep Prairie citizens warm on 35 below evenings. Solar is not going to develop the oil sands.
    I don’t think you realize just how fed up a large portion of your electoral base is with regard to your pandering to the enviro-muffins. We will walk away and take our votes and our political donations with us. Please Mr. Minister, stop this foolishness. Grow a pair.

  36. I was with my wife at the time. We’ll tone it down.
    I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget your waitresses.

  37. Here in Canada, it seems that we don’t even have enough initiative to do our own looting … we delegate it to our governments.

  38. That 1988 quake a 4.something, I was on the 15th floor at yonge and steeles, that was the most un-settling feeling I’ve ever had, the whole building swayed back and forth, swore I’d never live above the second floor again.
    This time I’m on the third floor and my monitor starts jiggleing, I could feel it but not like before, no swaying…phew.!
    Looked out into the hallway..no-one was panicing, all was well…ho hum.

  39. Something I sent to Jim Prentice after reading about this new “plan”.
    I read the news about your upcoming plan to phase out coal plants and I have to say I’m more than a little surprised. The last thing our fragile economy needs right now is higher energy costs, the very thing that “alternative energy” schemes have a proven track record of doing wherever they’ve been implemented around the globe. (cough, Spain, cough). Please, go back to being a straight-up, honest conservative and make common sense policy decisions. This “green” path the Conservative government is on only has the effect of the rest of us not being sure anymore what color you represent. Is it blue or red? We’re not sure anymore either. We wish our leaders were more like New Jersey governor Chris Christie. His straight-from-the heart talk is refreshing and something a lot of us in this country are waiting to hear. If you really don’t believe the “climate change” fiasco please stop pretending that you do. We sure don’t.
    Sincerely.

  40. Prentice has not only lost my vote, I will work during the next election to get him defeated.
    Posted by: Lorenzo at June 23, 2010 9:46 PM
    That’s the spirit. Get rid of the bugger. He was spouting enviro-drivel 6 months before Copenhagen.

  41. Oh yeah…the quake. Felt it here in Glengarry. Nothing too exciting…thought perhaps Libby Davis had farted in the bathtub….

  42. I bet you mr prentice has a kevin rudd moment. Names not capitalized on purpose because both are dolts.

  43. Prentice is a Progressive Conservative. Too bad he didn’t stay with Joe.
    Nobody will change his mind. You have to change him. Mr. Harper however has blocked that by ensuring that sitting MP’s won’t be contested for nominations. There is a lot of house cleaning needed in the CPC.

  44. So, Prentice is a Joe Clarke sleeper? This is not surprising. Once a “progressive”, always a “progressive”. Shrillery is also a progressive.
    Now about the millions already spent on carbon capture at the coal power plants?

  46. Something that was mentioned on an Ottawa call in show this morning, concerning the quake, was that land line and cell phone won’t work in the event of a big calamity. It is reserved for emergency services and government in a time of crisis.
    Perhaps anyone out there involved in emergency services can comment on this as I think it is important for everyone to know that the damn phones won’t work if you are trying to reach loved ones in the event of a catastrophe…or worse yet need help yourself.

  48. I was originally outraged by the Prentice remarks too. As several commenters above have stated, there is no way we can replace the power that is produced by the coal fired plants.
    Then, someone mentioned the G8. The lightbulb (flourescent, of course), went on.
    This is all posturing for the bozos of the G8 and soon to arrive G20. Tough talk that will be forgotten or changed after the great summits have ended. Notice that there is no date on which these dastardly CO2 emitters will close.
    Prentice wouldn’t be saying these things unless PMSH had approved it. It’s all just bluster.
    During the ’60’s I saw a number of movies that included an actor named Richard Benjamin. He always played wimpy parts and I always hated his guts. Later I realized that the guy was a fantastic actor. The way Jim Prentice talks and acts makes me want to throw him off a bridge. I’m expecting (praying), that it’s all an act.

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