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Earthquake of 5.5 Shakes Toronto Office Towers, Forces Ottawa Evacuations
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake in Canada shook office towers in Toronto and forced the evacuation of workers in Ottawa.
The earthquake at about 1:41 p.m. New York time was centered about 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Ottawa, according to the
U.S. Geological Survey. The tremors were also felt as far away as Ohio, New York and Massachusetts, said
Bruce Presgrave, a USGS geophysicist.
In Ottawa, several emergency vehicle sirens could be heard downtown, and hundreds of people evacuated buildings in the blocks around Parliament Hill. Mobile phone reception was intermittent in the half hour afterwards. There have been no reports of injuries.
“I was sitting at my desk when I felt a small shake,” said Kelly Cromwell, a money manager at J. Zechner Associates on the 47th floor of TD Canada Trust Tower at Brookfield Place building in Toronto’s financial hub. “My chair then started to move to the right, and that’s when I got up and ran to the elevator.”
When Andrea Ercolani felt the temblor in Toronto, she thought it was the vibrations from helicopters that had just flown low over downtown ahead of the Group of 20 summit this week.
“I was very nervous,” said Ercolani, 26, who works at a food magazine, Insight. “I’ve never felt an earthquake before.”