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Kate 08:45 on 2020-03-06 Permalink Reply  

• Ian 13:25 on 2020-03-06 Permalink

  It woke me up in Mile End but admittedly I’m a light sleeper. It sounded like my upstairs neighbour rolled a heavy ball from one end of the apartment to the other as a truck passed, rattling the windows. A cup fell off my shelf but didn’t break. I went back to sleep.

• Blork 13:31 on 2020-03-06 Permalink

  Dang, so mad that I missed it. I’m pretty sure it woke me up, but at the time I thought it was just a random wake-up, roll-over, back to sleep. (I.e., by the time I was awake it had passed.)

• Kate 13:58 on 2020-03-06 Permalink

  Now that I think of it, I believe I did wake up briefly, but without knowing why. I live in a sixplex, it’s not unheard-of for some of my neighbours to come home late. Went right back to sleep.

• Michael Black 14:11 on 2020-03-06 Permalink

  I remember the first time I ever noticed an earthquake, I was 12. But I thought it was just a truck passing by. It was only the newspaper story that made me realize it was an earthquake.

  There were others after that, but usually they were so brief that I didn’t catch on till it was over. Then in 1988 or so, I was up very light and one hit. No traffic at that time of night, it was also long enough. Plus, some books fell of a pile. There was also one about 1998 that was long enoigh. Or maybe by that time I was just quicker to realize it was an earthquake.

  It does seem like many hit overnight. At least that’s my impression. That mpacts, the lightness and if most are asleep lets the earthquake pass unnoticed by most.

  I guess we shoukd be lucky we just get “shakes” that we wonder about rather than real quakes that do damage.

• Blork 14:36 on 2020-03-06 Permalink

  I’ve felt a handful of earthquakes in Montreal over the years. I also felt one in L.A. that was like a single BANG! instead of the usual rolling rumble, and apparently it was a particular type that is caused by fracking. That was weird. I was in Sienna in September 1997 when the Assisi earthquake hit 100km away. The first one practically threw me out of bed but I didn’t even feel the second one the next morning.

• JP 01:18 on 2020-03-08 Permalink

  I briefly woke up, and thought “Snow removal…didn’t they already do that?” and went right back to sleep. It was only upon reading this here that it all made sense.