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Lewiston, Niagara, New York (43.6 km NW of epicenter) [
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] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s: I'm laying in bed. All of the sudden I heard rattling outside then the TV on the wall rattled then I felt it in bed. |
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14051 (20.3 km NNE of epicenter) [
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] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / very short: Woke us up. Thought large animal ran through house. On phone and they felt it too, 10 miles away. We were sleeping and it woke all 5 of us up. Dog was barking like crazy. Things on walls moved
HAMBURG, ny (12.4 km SSW of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 1-2 s: In the kitchen. I heard a thump like noise then it felt like a shock wave passed through the house. Everything rattled and shook.
St Catharines (52 km NW of epicenter) [
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] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s: Just woke up. Lying in bed. it was very light, felt like standing close to train tracks and train goes by. which is what I thought at first, then my body reacted, kind of tingled, that it was no train. I knew that it was an earthquake.
Clarence, Erie, New York (25.4 km NE of epicenter) [
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] / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / rattling, vibrating: Ramped up quickly and maintained shaking for approx 1-2 mins. No damage found yet, but I would be surprised at a little drywall cracking.
buffalo (9 km WNW of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV): I was awoke from sleep to a shaking, that felt like my building was shaking, that lasted about 30 seconds. I just laid in bed and thought I was dreaming until my friends across buffalo texted me saying they felt it as well.
Rockwood, Wellington County, Ontario (138.7 km NW of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV): I was fast asleep and felt my bed moving. Something was also tapping the window, which turned out to be shaking. It lasted for approximately 4 seconds.
Chippawa / niagara falls (35.8 km NW of epicenter) [
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] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s: A loud noise and the house was shaking. It sounded like thunder or a heavy truck driving down the road. The windows made noises and then it was gone.
Buffalo (16.8 km N of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV): The house was vibrating 2-3 seconds, and I didn’t feel like a common earthquake. My house vibrated in a very high frequency, didn’t feel like a wave. It was more like explosion on the surface.
Willamsvillr, NY (15.5 km NNE of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s: Felt the shaking and was jolted awake by the closet doors vibrating loudly in their metal tracks. I’m usually a deeper sleeper, so I was a little disoriented waking up so fast and I’m not sure exactly how much shaking was involved.
14052 (16.4 km SE of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s: I was woken by my cat who had apparently sensed it before it happened. He was yowling and acting crazy. Then it occurred.
Waterloo, Ontario (153.6 km WNW of epicenter) [
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] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / horizontal (sideways) swinging / 2-5 s: I was in my bed and i felt a small rumble. My bed frame started to rock back and forth and hit my wall a few times (gently). I was watching a video so i saw the phone shake (very small amount)
Lockport, NY (35.3 km N of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV): It was a vibrating/shaking that lasted for about 15 seconds. I would say loud rumble enough to feel and notice.
Fort Erie, ON (13.3 km WNW of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s: It woke me out of bed, and I am a very heavy sleeper. It sounded like a garbage truck was driving by in my room, but then I realized the room was shaking. It was scary to wake up to.
Lackawanna Ny (5.5 km SW of epicenter) [
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] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / single lateral shake / 2-5 s: Huge boom sound followed by shaking. The whole house shook It was not a weak shake. It literally woke me from my sleep. Weak and very weak does not describe in it . The shaking was moderate to light moderate.
Cheektowaga, NY (338.2 km ENE of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating: It woke me up out of a deep sleep. I heard my nightstand shaking and everything rattling inside and outside. It was scary because I wasn’t sure what it was but assumed it was an earthquake.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (107.3 km NW of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV): Jolted me out of light sleeping as the bed started to have intense vibration to thumping sensation and rattling of various items in the bedroom and within earshot of the surrounding spaces within our home.
14226 (14 km NNW of epicenter) [
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] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s: I was in the basement and it sounded like something smacked the roof and the house shook for a few seconds but there was no wind
amherst, buffalo (16.3 km N of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV): The building shaking is what woke me up and it happened for me for about 6 seconds. The shaking moved my building back and forth a few times but nothing fell off my shelves.
Buffalo New York (14.3 km N of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV): I was in the basement my wife was upstairs getting ready for work she thought something fell on the house I felt from the basement the Earth shake
147 km WNW of epicenter [
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] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 10-15 s: weak shaking. Felt like a construction vehicle was digging a hole beside our house. tables were shaking for 10-15 seconds.
Grand Island, NY 14072 (23.2 km NW of epicenter) [
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] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s: I was in bed. It felt like something fell on lower level of the building and then I felt vibration & shaking coming up my 3rd floor.
Virgil Ontario (49.3 km NW of epicenter) [
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] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s: The whole house vibrated for several seconds with a distant rumbling sound and a few pieces of furniture rattled very slightly and only for a second or two
Buffalo (11.6 km NNW of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / vertical swinging (up and down) / 2-5 s: Sudden and alarming shaking. About 624am. I thought at first it was my roommate upstairs jumping around heavily, but then remembered they weren't home. Friends called and reported the same shaking. Very scary
Buffalo ny (16.1 km NW of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV): I was in my bedroom and I woke up to my house shaking shook everything in the house and scared the animals
Cheektowaga (8.5 km N of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV): I was laying in bed watching tv and all of a sudden there way this big rumble noise and my whole house was shaking
Thorold (45.4 km WNW of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 5-10 s: I was in bed, probably asleep but not deeply. I woke up to a loud crunching/grinding sound that sounded like it was coming from the southwest and possibly very close. Then the entire house started trembling, more intensely than any of the quiet nighttime tremors I’d ever felt. I didn’t hear any rattling bc I was too focused on the feeling of the vibrations. It felt longer than reported, but my parents, both of whom also felt it, said it was much shorter than I thought.
107 potters road (2.8 km WSW of epicenter) [
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] / Moderate shaking (MMI V): me and my brother were woken up by the shake. his pictures fell off his wall and it was a rumble than donw
Williamsville (15.9 km NNE of epicenter) [
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] / Light shaking (MMI IV) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s: I was awake early because of my alarms when I felt the shaking and rattling you do when a truck passes, only I could tell after a couple seconds it was an earthquake. I was in my bedroom upstairs and afterwards my sister and cousin texted saying they also felt an earthquake (they live more into the downtown area)
Ontario (149.9 km WNW of epicenter) [
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] / Very weak shaking (MMI II) / single lateral shake / 2-5 s: I was on bed, and the a felt a was been move sideways. And even my tv screen was moving back and forward. It was vey smoothly shaking, but i think it was the remains of an earthquake faraway from Canadá.
NIAGARA FALLS (40.8 km NW of epicenter) [
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] / Weak shaking (MMI III) / rattling, vibrating / 2-5 s: It was an audible shaking noise that did not last very long, similar to the sound of a large truck passing by a house, but stronger.
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