It was indeed an earthquake that rattled our area today — and all of Ontario and Quebec for that matter.
The U-S Geological Survey has measured the earthquake at a magnitude of 5.5.
The epicentre was located about 50 kilometres north of Ottawa — in western Quebec near the Ontario border.
A 5.5 magnitude quake can be felt as far away as 500 kilometres.
It was felt for about 10 to 30 seconds from Ottawa to Toronto to Wasaga Beach to Kimberley to Owen Sound to Oliphant to Southampton and Port Elgin to Goderich and Simcoe.
Our newsroom phone lines lit up as soon as people felt the tremble.
Ed Buckle — the Manager at CIBC in Southampton — says the building started shaking and everyone gathered in the main area.
Buckle says you could see the blinds moving.
Linda in Wasaga Beach says she was in the kitchen, and her pot rack started to shake.
Another Wasaga man named Ed tells us he was working in the basement on a conference call, and everyone on the phone kept asking what was going on.
Vicki Little is the step-daughter of Saugeen Shores Police Constable Doug Lein.
Vicki — along with her husband Steven and their 7 month old daught Catelyn — live in Kanata, not too far from the centre of the 5.5 earthquake.
Vicki tells Bayshore Broadcasting News says she had just laid down to have a nap with her daughter when the quake struck.
She says she grabbed her daughter and ran out of the room to run out of the house.
Little says the quake lasted about 10-seconds with solid rumbling but it felt much longer than that.
She says there was no damage to the house although some laundry products hit the floor in the laundry room because of the shaking.
Little says she’s no stranger to earthquakes.
She and her husband used to teach English as a second language in Taiwan and they experienced an 8.0 earthquake during their stay, followed by several after shocks.
Little says that 50-second quake was terrifying.
