{"id":5857,"date":"2026-04-15T07:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/5857\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:06:12","slug":"eastern-canada-earthquake-felt-in-northeast-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/5857\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Canada Earthquake Felt in Northeast U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OttawaQuake.jpg\" alt=\"An earthquake struck at the orange dot inside the colored concentric circles on this map.  Image: USGS\" width=\"900\" height=\"614\"  \/>An earthquake struck at the orange dot inside the colored concentric circles on this map. Image: USGS<\/p>\n<p>An earthquake which struck outside of Ottawa in eastern Canada this afternoon was felt in portions of the northeastern United States too. According to USGS, at 12:36 pm in the afternoon, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck Shawville, Canada, which is roughly 60 miles northeast of Ottawa. The earthquake epicenter had a depth of 10 km.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of reports were sent to Earthquakes Canada, the Canadian agency equivalent to the U.S.\u2019s USGS, by Canadian citizens reporting they felt shaking.\u00a0 Over two dozen people are reporting that they felt the earthquake as a level 1 intensity, and hundreds more felt it as level 2 or 3. According to Earthquakes Canada, reports as\u00a0 far away as Toronto were submitted. People also reported feeling the earthquake to USGS in the U.S. too, with over 200 reports received as of press time.<\/p>\n<p>The last significant earthquake to strike the Ottawa metro region was in 2010. At that time, a\u00a0 quake hit the Val-des-Bois area north of the capital. It lasted about 30 seconds and was measured as a magnitude 5.0 event.<\/p>\n<p>According to USGS, earthquakes with a magnitude of 2.0 or less are rarely felt or heard by people, but once they exceed 2.0 , more and more people can feel them. While damage is possible with magnitude 3.0 events or greater, significant damage and\u00a0casualties\u00a0usually don\u2019t occur until the magnitude of a seismic event rises to a 5.5 or greater rated event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An earthquake struck at the orange dot inside the colored concentric circles on this map. Image: USGS An&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,3474,3475,3476,61,2878,3477,3478],"class_list":{"0":"post-5857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-earthquake","10":"tag-earthquakes-canada","11":"tag-northeast","12":"tag-ottawa","13":"tag-u-s","14":"tag-usgs","15":"tag-val-des-bois"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}