The 5.0 quake in Canada a few days ago was not large by California standards, but did major damage and was felt much farther away than it should have been 500 miles. The last comparable earthquake on that fault line was a 5.4-magnitude shaker in 1998, but it seems that this new one was significantly more intense in the extent to which it was felt.
Maybe this is a false perception related to the influx of News reporters covering the G8/G20 (and the emerging NWO) and maybe due to better news coverage in general (or a slow news day) - or maybe it is part of some nebulous conspiracy associated with the gathering. :-) No doubt some fool in search of his 15 seconds of fame will claim HAARP or UFO involvement. At any rate, if this quake was any kind of anomaly, I cannot find a real scientist who claims to know why, and since the there are many fault lines along Lake Erie and Ontario, and an active line that runs parallel to the St. Lawrence it is probably mundane. I also wonder if the seismic activity in that region of Canada is in any way related to the Sudbury Basin Impact site, which is now claimed to be the second largest meteorite impact crater on earth but which area is better known for the famous nickel mining district. There is definite cause/effect there, since the offending meteorite had high nickel content. Today, this impact site is one reason that nickel is plentiful enough on earth to supply all of our energy needs via LENR for millennia, if the Arata nano-technology should mature, as it seems to be doing. By the way, Sudbury Basin is significantly larger (and older) then the Chicxulub crater in Yucatán, Mexico which is famously responsible for triggering the mass extinction 65 million years ago. One final comment, based on nickel and solar ions. Our sun has been active recently, and Earth is crossing a solar wind stream which is flowing from a large coronal hole. Auroras are more common than usual recently, due to the strong ion wind; and nickel well it is ferromagnetic, so there could be a solar-ion connection to the quake which was built up over weeks. Check out some of the data here: http://www.spaceweather.com/ and look at where that aurora oval is pointing directly to the epicenter. Well, it was a couple of day ago but seems to have shifted Westward. OK the solar wind is probably not a trigger for earthquakes, but the next time one happens - which seems to be anomalous, I am going to check again. There is a current sunspot, and only 35 days this year without one, compared with last year when there were almost four times fewer. There are unusual correlations with sunspots that turn up from time to time including this one: http://sc25.com/index.php?id=62 Jones
