A 4.2 magnitude earthquake was “lightly felt” in Ontario after it hit near Buffalo, N.Y., Earthquakes Canada said Monday — a light quake by international…
No significant damage was reported in the hours after Monday morning’s earthquake and none would be expected to accompany one of its size, said Stephen Halchuk, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“It was a sufficient magnitude that it woke everybody up except my youngest grandson, who apparently slept right through it,” Redekop said. “But he’s four. He probably ran the batteries down yesterday and needed to recharge.” The zone is far from North American tectonic plate boundaries in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean Sea. But as the plate crawls along, at a pace of around five to ten centimetres a year, stresses build up in the earth’s crust, leading to “areas of weakness”, such as the Niagara-Attica zone, Halchuk said.Article content
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