Chenango feels Canadian quake
GREENE – Scott Sheldon was sitting at his desk at approximately 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, when he felt something out of the ordinary.
“It wasn’t a violent shake,” the Raymond employee said, describing the tremor as a vibration which lasted 5 to 10 seconds.
Sheldon said he was ready to write it off, when a co-worker came over and asked, “Did you guys feel the Earth move?”
“Everyone around me stood up and said they felt it, too,” he explained.
Sheldon and his co-workers in Greene weren’t the only ones who felt the quake, according to Emergency Management Officer A Jones, who said he began receiving reports from elsewhere in Chenango County as well as Syracuse, Watertown and Albany, within minutes.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center, what area residents felt stems from an earthquake 10.2 miles below the Earth’s surface 35 miles Northeast of Ottawa, Canada near the border of the Ontario and Quebec provinces. The quake, which hit at 1:41 p.m., was initally reported as being 5.5 in magnitude, but later adjusted to 5.0.
No reports of damage within Chenango County or elsewhere in New York State were received as a result of the quake, according to Jones.
The USGS asks that anyone who felt the earthquake report their experience via their website at www.earthquake.usgs.gov. As of press time, 55,479 people from 3,114 zip codes and 352 cities had reported feeling the quake.
“It wasn’t a violent shake,” the Raymond employee said, describing the tremor as a vibration which lasted 5 to 10 seconds.
Sheldon said he was ready to write it off, when a co-worker came over and asked, “Did you guys feel the Earth move?”
“Everyone around me stood up and said they felt it, too,” he explained.
Sheldon and his co-workers in Greene weren’t the only ones who felt the quake, according to Emergency Management Officer A Jones, who said he began receiving reports from elsewhere in Chenango County as well as Syracuse, Watertown and Albany, within minutes.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center, what area residents felt stems from an earthquake 10.2 miles below the Earth’s surface 35 miles Northeast of Ottawa, Canada near the border of the Ontario and Quebec provinces. The quake, which hit at 1:41 p.m., was initally reported as being 5.5 in magnitude, but later adjusted to 5.0.
No reports of damage within Chenango County or elsewhere in New York State were received as a result of the quake, according to Jones.
The USGS asks that anyone who felt the earthquake report their experience via their website at www.earthquake.usgs.gov. As of press time, 55,479 people from 3,114 zip codes and 352 cities had reported feeling the quake.
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