Quake reported in eastern Canada

Eastern Canada got the shakes on Friday. Even the northern U.S.
twitched.
People on both sides of the border felt an earthquake originating around the
Quebec and Ontario borders, the Canadian government said. Natural
Resources Canada gave it a preliminary magnitude of 5.2; the U.S. Geological
Survey put it at 4.4.
With an epicenter about 11 miles (18 kilometers) from Shawville, in western
Quebec, the quake was felt in the Ottawa-Gatineau area and out to Toronto,
more than 260 miles away. It hit a nerve in New York state and Cleveland, too.
"My house shook!" Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said in a tweet.
Authorities say it is unlikely the quake, which occurred at 9:43 a.m., caused
significant damage. It was followed 10 minutes later by an aftershock measured
at magnitude-4.1 by the Canadian agency and 3.6 by the U.S. bureau. Its
epicenter was about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Shawville.
"It kind of made me a little nervous and I booted it out of the house as quick as
I could. It certainly got my heart racing," said Jonathan Essiambre of Shawville,
according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
"It was like a massive explosion that went off. It just started shaking and the
walls of the bakery were moving," Dan Duggan, who owns a bakery in
Shawville, said, according to the CBC. "I thought it was my propane tanks
exploding. We were evacuating employees out of the building. It lasted for
about 25 seconds and it went on for about another minute."
"We had a lot of shaking, that's for sure," said Kim Bulmer, town clerk of nearby
Renfrew, Ontario. "But I just checked with the public works director, and there
does not seem to be any reports of damage so far."
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said state emergency officials were monitoring
the quake, felt in parts of the state.
"At this time, there have been no reports of damage to any of the state's critical
infrastructure," Cuomo said in a written statement.
Eastern Canada has a relatively low rate of earthquake activity, according to
Natural Resources Canada, but there have been large earthquakes before, with
about four exceeding magnitude 4 per year.
"A decade will, on average, include three events greater than magnitude 5," the
agency said.