It's a friendly earthquake. It's a very good reminder to people in this region that we live in earthquake country. Some of the world's biggest earthquakes have occurred here.

It was something we didn't even know existed. It certainly was exciting for us. It's good to win for something nice we did.

It's something that we're still looking at, whether this was a blast in Vancouver or North Vancouver construction, it's sort of an unusual time.

The story is accompanied by all this tapping and whacking and touching and rubbing and bumping on your back, and trust me, that's a huge hit.

Small earthquakes occur just north of Ottawa through what's called the Western Quebec Seismic Zone and also along the St. Lawrence Valley so we do see small earthquakes occurring on a routine basis through that area.

Because we do have recordings on the ground, it likely was a blast or a very tiny earthquake.

It's certainly a time period of higher hazard when we're going through one of those tremor and slip sequences, because we're adding more stress to the locked portion of the fault.

I do weird things with balloons. I'm not proud of it ? it's just for the longest time these have been my only friends.

Some people were frightened, ran to their basement, or ran out of doors.