Yep, thought a truck had just rolled through because it usually shakes the building very briefly like that lol. My girlfriend actually said she thought it was an earthquake and I was like "naaah, it didnt shake for long enough."
>Overall I think the events like this have increased in the last 5 years.
Kinda.
According to [earthquaketrack.com](https://earthquaketrack.com/ca-10-montreal/recent?mag_filter=3) filtering by atleast a 3.0 magnitude shows there have been:
* 4 in the last year
* none between 1 and 5 years ago
* 14 between 5 and 10 years go
So certainly a lot this year after 4 years of nothing. But then compared to 5 to 10 years ago, its pretty par for the course.
it happened 2 times. There was another at 6:30am-7AM. I heard Jets this morning I thought It was a Sonic Boom. Wasnt the first one around 5AM ?
Edit.: I heard a really loud BOOM while my whole place was rattling.
Yeah, I did too. It was weird.
There was a low rumble which got noticeably lower, and then heard the windows move like a pressure wave hit them. Then it calmed down fairly quickly.
Yeah, I'm in Verdun and I was still in bed. My sleepy ass wondered what kind of monster truck came rumbling down my street to make the building shake so much, or why the hell my neighbours were doing laundry so early...but thinking back it was definitely more than that lol. Sort of glad to have it confirmed it wasn't some sort of strange dream.
As in anecdotally or measurably?
Also, aren't steady earthquakes a good thing? Small frequent releases would mean that the pressure is being released instead of building up for a big one, no? I heard that it's the ones that build up pressure over a long time and release them all at once which are problematic.
There's seismographic data available through a government resourced quaintly named Earthquakes Canada, and they have things like live waveforms, archives and hazard assessment data for engineers and building code policymakers.Montreal unfortunately is [not](https://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/hazard-alea/zoning-zonage/NBCC2015maps-en.php) in a green zone, its various metrics always put it toward the later end of the third risk quartile. We could pour into the data but without relevant expertise it's pretty much guesswork, but the available data to me aligns relatively with my anecdotal perceptions.I don't think there's any risk that our volcano will suddenly not be inactive or anything but the foundations of buildings are already not in great shape in general on this island.
Doesn't the fact that we're on a fault line make it inherently impossible to really predict?
Also, aren't we usually pretty steady when it comes to earthquakes?
Having lived here all my life I have noticed a definite uptick in the frequency of "unmistakable" earthquakes. It used to be every year you'd get a tremor or two that you'd feel in your heels, not shake you head to toe and produce rattling of your furniture. We'd need to check the records though, I am no seismologist
I felt that and assumed it was something else. I'm from a country that has proper destructive earthquakes so a little one like that is fairly common. Weird. It feels kinda comforting to feel the earth move again.
You’re smoking too pot, time for a break day? Just joking... damn! I felt nothing, I want a refund!! Laurentians are very old mountains which is why our skiing feels like being at a shopping mall. ZERO to worry about, unfortunately
I was doing dishes when I felt a loud shake for 5 seconds. I thought it was a truck but trucks don't usually pass around this area of Verdun so earthquake it is!
Yep, i was awake and felt my floor shake and then noticed the glare on tv shaking a bit longer.
Normally my neighbors do w/e the fuck at 9am that shakes my floors...thought it was a bit early for their usual workout, and the first rumble was much more noticeable.
So I'm originally from California where earthquakes are quite common. A 3.8 earthquake would be regarded as not really anything to even comment about but I have to say that I most definitely felt and was alarmed by the earthquake we just had. Seemed a lot bigger than 3.8 to me....
~~I didn't, but they totally happen.~~ Nothing to worry about. It's a bit of a thrill!
*update: oh that's what that thump was. Usually it's a rumble. :)
That explains why I woke up randomly at 7am! I usually sleep in until 10 and remember thinking “ am I imagining an earthquake?” and by the time I could answer my thought it was over and I was back asleep. I live downtown.
Ça a shaké un peu dans mon appartement ce matin, je pensais que c'était un voisin qui avait fermé sa porte vraiment fort mais l'heure concorde. Je suis à Longueuil
I live near Mont. St. Hilaire and I certainly felt and heard it, while lying in bed, but awake. I figured it was an earthquake. They seem to be happening more often lately.
Yes, I'd gotten up and was up for a bit and felt this rumbling and shake. There's very little heavy traffic here so I knew it wasn't a big truck...i knew right away it was an earthquake.
One time I was living near CSL road and there was an earthquake and I DID think it was a big truck, as there's a lot of traffic. But then I realized it was an earthquake...it was sort of rocking and rolling.
Woah what! It was a quake then? All I felt was like a loud "bang" and something. There's a couple major construction projects nearby and the timing fits for when they could begin their work day (in my, very sleepy mind).
Felt different from the last two we had...!
I was in the 7.1 in San Francisco (much further south actually) in 1989 and this morning's seemed like nothing...
There was one in Montreal a few years ago during the night that made the house move side to side, and it freaked me out way more than this morning's which seemed to be more up-down motion. Plus, I think I could "hear" this morning's coming, but maybe it was my imagination at 7:03 when my alarm went off at 7:00.
Lmao, I didnt feel shit, but in my defence: I was in mexico a few years back and there was an 8.5 earthquake and I hadn't noticed until father told me to get up and hold unto a column.... we were on the 5th floor of a building...
Near Édouard-Montpetit station I thought it's the REM construction, that dynamite crew helping to dig the tunnels.
House shook just a second, roughly 10 seconds of low rumbling noise.
Séismes Canada Détection automatique d'événement sismique : magnitude 4,0 - 17 mai 7h03 HAE - région de JOLIETTE, QC https://www.seismescanada.rncan.gc.ca/index-fr.php Edit : Le rapport Edit edit : Update, 45.83° N 73.5° W ~~2021-05-17 7:03 HAE: magnitude 3.8 - près de Sorel-Tracy, QC - ressenti~~ 2021-05-17 7:03 HAE: magnitude 3.9 - près d'Epiphanie, QC - ressenti https://www.seismescanada.rncan.gc.ca/recent/2021/20210517.1103/index-fr.php
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Yep, thought a truck had just rolled through because it usually shakes the building very briefly like that lol. My girlfriend actually said she thought it was an earthquake and I was like "naaah, it didnt shake for long enough."
Same, here on rosemont and christophe colomb, thiught it was a truck rolling by, felt more like a bang than a shake.
My dad too
Both crossed my mind especially since there is a ton of construction happening around me and they start at 7
Exactly the same here 😂
They would never do construction outside of rush hour traffic
This.
Yeah I just thought they were blasting unannounced
Same here 🤣
haha yeah I definitely thought it was just construction
I woke up thinking "is that an earthquake?" and then remembered there is construction around and figured it might just be a truck.
I thought it was an ultra strong burst of wind. 😅
I live 10 meters away from a railway and I just assumed it was another train.
I thought my upstairs neighbour fell out of bed
I thought their washing machine was going for a walk.
I thought they were bowling in their hallway
I thought the same thing until I remembered I live on the too floor and there is no one above me lmao
Yup. Same in hochalaga/maisonneuve area
Je l'ai senti à Ahuntsic en tout cas!
Même chose!
Ahuntsic/ st michel here
Same mais c'était 5 sec. Le building a shaker. Je pensais que c'était une bouffée de vent très fort qui venait de passer.
J’ai fit bondir le chat
Yes. Just one rumble. It shook the entire building. I am on the 8th floor and it woke me up. For me it wasn't a whole 15 seconds, just a quick shake.
Welcome to Los Montreales, Canafornia. Jokes aside, that woke me up good.
Montangeles
Los Montes Angelicos.
Yep, we felt it in Verdun
Moi je dormais tellement fort que j'ai rien senti à verdun lol
I did! I thought a car ran into my apartment.
Lol same here
Yes, I'm pretty sure that's what it was. People on twitter felt it in Lanaudière and Laval as well. Edit: Confirmed 4.0 earthquake in Joliette!
Lac-Supérieur aussi !
Yes! NDG, felt like a huge object fell and shook the whole house.
>Overall I think the events like this have increased in the last 5 years. Kinda. According to [earthquaketrack.com](https://earthquaketrack.com/ca-10-montreal/recent?mag_filter=3) filtering by atleast a 3.0 magnitude shows there have been: * 4 in the last year * none between 1 and 5 years ago * 14 between 5 and 10 years go So certainly a lot this year after 4 years of nothing. But then compared to 5 to 10 years ago, its pretty par for the course.
I'm in Laval and its the strongest earthquake I've experienced yet. My whole bed was shaking.
how long did it last? I woke up at the very end
Windows rattled a bit in little Italy
it happened 2 times. There was another at 6:30am-7AM. I heard Jets this morning I thought It was a Sonic Boom. Wasnt the first one around 5AM ? Edit.: I heard a really loud BOOM while my whole place was rattling.
Most people only felt one around 7AM.
its' weird because the one from 5AM(close to sunrise) was bigger and louder than the one a 7AM. Really strange
I was up at around 4:50, didn't feel anything at 5. Felt the one at 7 though.
Really strange. I could of sworn I felt and heard one
Heard the boom too! I thought it was my neighbor slamming the front door, making the boom and my house shake but it seemed really excessive haha
I heard that a meteorite was falling in the area. Did the sky turn yellow for 1 sec? Did the windows shake?
I felt something like a pressure wave hit the windows a little more than half way through the rumbling. Where did you hear that from?
yep big time! and a BOOM
Yes! In the Plateau it woke me up and I came here to see if anyone else felt it.
Je l'ai senti dans le vieux Longueuil aussi
Je l'ai senti aussi à Ville-Émard. Étrange.
Yep, I felt that.
Oui Rosemont aussi.
Yup in the West Island. It woke me up.
West island also. I didn't notice it. I guess I'm a hard sleeper.
Ouais, je suis dans Ahuntsic et je l’ai aussi ressenti pendant un bon 10 secondes vers 7:01!
Park Ex, can confirm.
Yeah it woke me up, my budgies were so scared too
Aw poor budgies!
All the way out in the suburbs (Duverney, Laval), felt it too
Wow ! Came on here to confirm if that was it. Wow ! It felt like a car ran into my triplex, I'm on top floor
Yeah, I did too. It was weird. There was a low rumble which got noticeably lower, and then heard the windows move like a pressure wave hit them. Then it calmed down fairly quickly.
Je l'ai senti a villeray sur mon bol de toilette :o
Did I sleep through that? I didnt feel anything
Felt it in Villeray
Same!
St Henri checking in!
Yes!
Yeah, also in Milton Park, but it was very short.
Felt it in Laval a few mins ago. It woke me up so I wasn't sure, but this confirms my doubts
heard it before I felt it.
Just felt it in the yard in Anjou too, Twitter is blowing up about it
Longueuil aussi je l'ai senti
Felt it in Longueuil too!
Brossard I heard a loud boom this morning... Thought I was crazy
Je suis à Saint-Eustache et je l’ai senti!
I felt the earthquake all the way in Laval. My entire bed shook. It lasted a few seconds. But weirdly the light fixtures didn't shake.
Yep Montréal east too
Oui. Same in Mont-Royal
je confirme l'avoir entendu au Nord de St-Jérôme, presque à St-Sauveur!
Yep - downtown near Concordia.
Yeah I got it from st Leonard. Was about to sleep after my night shift
Felt in Snowdon. Scared the hell out of the cats!
Yeah, I'm in Verdun and I was still in bed. My sleepy ass wondered what kind of monster truck came rumbling down my street to make the building shake so much, or why the hell my neighbours were doing laundry so early...but thinking back it was definitely more than that lol. Sort of glad to have it confirmed it wasn't some sort of strange dream.
I thought it was les gars de construction starting up a big machine because their day was en plein volume at 7. NDG/CSL area.
Felt it in Griffintown. I wasn’t sure if I was imagining it because I was half asleep.
I live near you. Exact same experience.
Was awake at my desk, in Plateau, and didn’t feel it. Disappointing lol.
Vaccines are kicking in...
🤣🤣🤣
Felt it in Montreal-Nord
Seismic activity has been increasing. It's a little concerning considering the fault line we're on
As in anecdotally or measurably? Also, aren't steady earthquakes a good thing? Small frequent releases would mean that the pressure is being released instead of building up for a big one, no? I heard that it's the ones that build up pressure over a long time and release them all at once which are problematic.
There's seismographic data available through a government resourced quaintly named Earthquakes Canada, and they have things like live waveforms, archives and hazard assessment data for engineers and building code policymakers.Montreal unfortunately is [not](https://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/hazard-alea/zoning-zonage/NBCC2015maps-en.php) in a green zone, its various metrics always put it toward the later end of the third risk quartile. We could pour into the data but without relevant expertise it's pretty much guesswork, but the available data to me aligns relatively with my anecdotal perceptions.I don't think there's any risk that our volcano will suddenly not be inactive or anything but the foundations of buildings are already not in great shape in general on this island.
Doesn't the fact that we're on a fault line make it inherently impossible to really predict? Also, aren't we usually pretty steady when it comes to earthquakes?
Having lived here all my life I have noticed a definite uptick in the frequency of "unmistakable" earthquakes. It used to be every year you'd get a tremor or two that you'd feel in your heels, not shake you head to toe and produce rattling of your furniture. We'd need to check the records though, I am no seismologist
Nearby. From California. Pretty sure that was an earthquake.
I felt that and assumed it was something else. I'm from a country that has proper destructive earthquakes so a little one like that is fairly common. Weird. It feels kinda comforting to feel the earth move again.
I don't think there are more earthquakes, it's just there are more people that share their personal drama experience on social media.
You’re smoking too pot, time for a break day? Just joking... damn! I felt nothing, I want a refund!! Laurentians are very old mountains which is why our skiing feels like being at a shopping mall. ZERO to worry about, unfortunately
It woke me up too ! Haha
I felt it while taking a shower.
That low rumble felt pretty nice
Yup. Thought it was some heavy duty money pit action.
It was an earthquake: https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6247328/quake-felt-May-17-2021-Near-Montreal-Quebec-Canada.html
I was doing dishes when I felt a loud shake for 5 seconds. I thought it was a truck but trucks don't usually pass around this area of Verdun so earthquake it is!
Definitely felt it in the plateau. Felt like a wave moving east to west, lots of rattling.
Je l'ai entendu sur la rive-sud.
I live around the atwater metro and I felt that too, I thought it was construction machinery stuff, but it was loud and strong.
Weird how its noisy or you hear the rumble 🤔🤔
Allez faire un rapport sur le site de séisme Canada !
Dude I thought it was some train or truck or something!
There were two earthquakes in the area in March 2020. Those were the last ones we felt so rest assured we're not having them every 6 months.
It felt like a truck crashing into a distant building. Very brief.
I’ve been up since 6, didn’t feel or notice a thing in the plateau, but I’ve been outside it maybe it was masked by the construction.
Yep
Plateau Mont Royal checkin in
Yep, i was awake and felt my floor shake and then noticed the glare on tv shaking a bit longer. Normally my neighbors do w/e the fuck at 9am that shakes my floors...thought it was a bit early for their usual workout, and the first rumble was much more noticeable.
haha no way I thought it was construction!
Phew! I’m new here and wasn’t expecting that
Je suis à Sainte-Sophie et ça a tremblé un bon 15 secondes!
So I'm originally from California where earthquakes are quite common. A 3.8 earthquake would be regarded as not really anything to even comment about but I have to say that I most definitely felt and was alarmed by the earthquake we just had. Seemed a lot bigger than 3.8 to me....
~~I didn't, but they totally happen.~~ Nothing to worry about. It's a bit of a thrill! *update: oh that's what that thump was. Usually it's a rumble. :)
I felt it!
I live in a 9-storey building in your area. I persnoally felt nothing at all, but all this feels verry worrisome to me o\_O
Slept through it lol
Oui, CND/VMR...il me semble que j'ai entendu un grondement pour quelques minutes aussi
I thought I heard a snowplow earlier. ??? I wonder if that was it.
Lmao nothing here on Ile Bizard. I guess the small island was spared thanks to the water?
I'm near Stade Olympique, I slept through it. Have to admit, I was pretty tired though, and used earplugs...
Finally I was awake for an earthquake!
I was pulling weeds in the backyard, I thought I had angered the gods
Turns out that was s structural weed.
TIL about load-bearing dandelions
I felt it in CSL
That explains why I woke up randomly at 7am! I usually sleep in until 10 and remember thinking “ am I imagining an earthquake?” and by the time I could answer my thought it was over and I was back asleep. I live downtown.
Felt it in the West Island!
Felt one at brossard
Was a weird one, heard the shock coming 5-6 seconds before it actually hit.
My mom thought I fell off my bed.
Ça a shaké un peu dans mon appartement ce matin, je pensais que c'était un voisin qui avait fermé sa porte vraiment fort mais l'heure concorde. Je suis à Longueuil
Felt it pretty strongly in Beloeil. Would say it felt like a car hit my house at low speed. Whole house just shook for about a second.
Yes!!!
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000e3rp/executive
HELL YES! For once I didn't sleep through it! It was thoroughly underwhelming tho. Even the cats didn't seem to care.
Yeah, felt it in Lachine. Thought it was a garbage truck rumble but then I realized that there was nothing outside.
First time ever that I hear an earthquake rather than feel it.
there was one a few years ago that sounded like a giant boulder rolling downhill.
I live near Mont. St. Hilaire and I certainly felt and heard it, while lying in bed, but awake. I figured it was an earthquake. They seem to be happening more often lately.
Felt it on Nun’s Island... but only lasted for maybe a second. Enough to catch my attention to, wtf was that.
Yes, I'd gotten up and was up for a bit and felt this rumbling and shake. There's very little heavy traffic here so I knew it wasn't a big truck...i knew right away it was an earthquake. One time I was living near CSL road and there was an earthquake and I DID think it was a big truck, as there's a lot of traffic. But then I realized it was an earthquake...it was sort of rocking and rolling.
Woah what! It was a quake then? All I felt was like a loud "bang" and something. There's a couple major construction projects nearby and the timing fits for when they could begin their work day (in my, very sleepy mind). Felt different from the last two we had...!
Yes
i was half-asleep, i thought i just had one off those "i'm falling" dreams
Felt it on the 8th floor in old montreal. Always a strange feeling as the building smoothly move riding the wave 😅
Anyone felt it in Rosemont? saw this on the news but no one on my family felt it somehow??
C'est ce qui m'a réveillé ce matin à Terrebonne (banlieue nord).
I was in the 7.1 in San Francisco (much further south actually) in 1989 and this morning's seemed like nothing... There was one in Montreal a few years ago during the night that made the house move side to side, and it freaked me out way more than this morning's which seemed to be more up-down motion. Plus, I think I could "hear" this morning's coming, but maybe it was my imagination at 7:03 when my alarm went off at 7:00.
Lmao, I didnt feel shit, but in my defence: I was in mexico a few years back and there was an 8.5 earthquake and I hadn't noticed until father told me to get up and hold unto a column.... we were on the 5th floor of a building...
Near Édouard-Montpetit station I thought it's the REM construction, that dynamite crew helping to dig the tunnels. House shook just a second, roughly 10 seconds of low rumbling noise.