NU Online News Service, June 23, 3:40 p.m. EDT
|A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near the Ontario-Quebec borderregion in Canada, about 33 miles north/northeast of Ottawa,according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
|The quake struck at 1:41 p.m. today, and news reports indicatethat there is no reported serious damage, and that shaking was feltas far south as central New York.
|According to the USGS, the earthquake occurred in the WesternQuebec seismic zone. Earthquakes cause damage in the zone aboutonce a decade, USGS said, with smaller earthquakes felt three orfour times a year. The two largest damaging earthquakes in the zonewere a magnitude 6.1 quake in 1935 and a magnitude 6.2 quake in1732, which caused significant damage in Montreal.
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