5.0-magnitude earthquake shakes Manhattan

A 5.0-magnitude earthquake with its epicenter in remote eastern Canada shook Manhattan offices and apartment towers and rattled people in Staten Island and New Jersey. No injuries or damage were reported in the city from the quake, which struck about 400 miles north of New York and to say the least was very unusual for this part of North America.

According to researchers it was one of the largest quakes ti hit this area in the last 20 or 30 years. The sparked dozens of New Yorkers to call 911. For the most part it went unnoticed and New Yorkers as usual took it all in stride.

Had yesterday’s 5.0 Richter-scale quake had its epicenter in New York it could have damaged some poorly-constructed buildings. However little damage was reported from the quake even in Ottawa, the nearest big city to its epicenter. Experts claim that about once a decade, you get an earthquake in eastern Canada that is felt like this.

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