According to USGS, this was about 50 km north of Ottawa, in a rather isolated area. There are a few villages nearby which might suffer damage, but it's unlikely that any internet infrastructure or datacenters would be affected at all.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us...

I up voted before clicking the link.. I am terribly sorry I did. Come on, at least link it to a news article!

Anyway, looks like Quebec is finally separating :P

Hey CaptainCrunch, FYI Ottawa != Toronto (I'm sure you knew that, just saying)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/earthquake-shak...

That was pretty intense. I'm in a Starbucks in Ottawa. The whole building was shaking, everyone ran outside. I felt the 4.5 Ottawa quake in 2006, too, and this one was much stronger.

When exactly is an earthquake not "unexpected"?

We felt this in Grand Rapids, MI. I was on the 6th floor of our building at the time and the standing dividers in the office were swaying back and forth by about 2 inches.

Felt it here, 40 mins northwest of Detroit, MI. Didn't recognize what it was until I saw this.

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Report from Hamilton, Ontario: http://www.raisethehammer.org/blog/1777/earthquake

Workers in one of our buildings south of Baltimore felt the building swaying from the ripples of this. A coworker said it felt like "being on a cruise ship."

Didn't feel a thing here in Calgary! ;)

It wasn't 5.5 in Toronto.

Another earth quake reported only 15 minutes later... only days before the g20 summit (http://www.g20.org)