{"id":12068,"date":"2010-06-23T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=12068"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:32:49","slug":"earthquake-bad-omen-for-g20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/06\/23\/earthquake-bad-omen-for-g20\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake! Tsunami warning for G20 fake lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/earthquake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12069\" title=\"earthquake\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/earthquake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/earthquake.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/earthquake-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, an earthquake shook Toronto. And Ottawa. And Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Windsor, places in Ohio&#8230;. There has also been a tsunami warning for the G20 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/politics\/story\/2010\/06\/07\/g8-summit-cost-question-period.html\">fake lake<\/a> (ahem).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2010\/06\/23\/tremors-felt-in-toronto-ottawa-reports\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">National Post is reporting<\/a> that the quake was in the mid-4 range of the Richter Scale, while the US Geological Survey <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/recenteqsww\/Quakes\/us2010xwa7.php\">is reporting<\/a> a 5.5 quake. The epicentre is believed to be 70km north of Ottawa. You can learn about the St. Lawrence fault line, the culprit of this quake, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Lawrence_rift_system\">on Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But to really follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Earthquake\">what&#8217;s going on, check out Twitter<\/a> and your Facebook feeds. Spacing&#8217;s Shawn Micallef has created a hash-tag, #quakeTO, that you can use for local stories, or the simple #earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to share your stories with us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: We&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/06\/23\/we-made-i-survived-the-quake-buttons\/\">inspired by all this shaking<\/a> and have created a one-inch button to commemorate the event. You can<a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/store\/buttons\/i-survived-the-quake\/\"> buy the buttons for $1.50<\/a> from our web site or for $2 at Swipe Books and the Outer Layer on Queen West.<\/p>\n<p>photo from the top of Spacing&#8217;s building, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mutephotoblog\/4226223484\/\">Miles Storey<\/a> (slightly manipulated)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, an earthquake shook Toronto. And Ottawa. And Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Windsor, places in Ohio&#8230;. 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