[boox909]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/earthquake-shakes-ontario-us-states/article1614941/

WOW! Ya'll all be safe!

B.

[Captain Audio]

Have there been any reports of sinkholes forming after the quake?

I'd heard that some parts of Canada had problems with sinkholes swallowing entire villages many years ago.

[boox909]

Have there been any reports of sinkholes forming after the quake?

I'd heard that some parts of Canada had problems with sinkholes swallowing entire villages many years ago.

OY! Sinkholes? I'll keep checking the news, but nothing like that yet. Amazing how far this quake extended though.

B.

[Janus Wolf]

yes I felt the wake, I was working on the 8th floor of the office. Its all good, no damage. However, we recently hosted the G20 in Toronto, I heard there was 1 million dollars worth of damage due to smashed glass...from businesses etc..

Janus

Have there been any reports of sinkholes forming after the quake?

I'd heard that some parts of Canada had problems with sinkholes swallowing entire villages many years ago.

OY! Sinkholes? I'll keep checking the news, but nothing like that yet. Amazing how far this quake extended though.

B.

[Captain Audio]

Heres a news story about a family of four being killed when their house was swallowed by a sinkhole in May 2010.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7123693.ece


And something on the earlier sinkhole incidents

Experts said the landslide was the result of recent rain changing the composition of the clay that makes up the area. Quebec is notoriously prone to landslides. The Canadian Government said that clay earthflows had caused about 100 deaths in recorded memory, including the destruction of two Quebec towns in 1908 and 1971.

By a coincidence, the destruction of St-Jean-Vianney on May 4, 1971, also took place on the night of a Montr