A magnitude 5.0 earthquake hit near the border of Ontario and Quebec this afternoon.
The University of Pittsburgh's seismic station at the Allegheny
Observatory detected the quake for 20 minutes.
It picked up the reading at about 1:43 p.m. - about two minutes after it
started.
Residents in Toronto, upstate New York and Vermont could feel the ground
shaking.
On Pittsburgh's South Side, the tremor was felt mostly by people on the
upper floors of buildings on Carson Street.
They evacuated.
"Everybody was sort of shocked because we didn't know what it was,"
Diane Newhouse, an evacuee, said. "We didn't know really if the floor
was going to cave in or what it was."
It was a frightening experience.
"I'm walking with a cane, I got to go down a fire escape – yeah I was
scared, [I'm not going to] lie," Kevin Sieg said.
Emergency officials in Monongalia County, W. Va., also report that
people in that area also felt tremors.
There have been no reports of damage.