A minor earthquake occured today in the area surronding (and between) Ottawa and Montreal at 1:36 pm.
The quake with a magnitude of 4.3 caused the ground to shake for about ten seconds, but according to many it just felt like a truck passing by. No significant damage has been reported what so ever.
In other news a pump seal failed at a nuclear power plant in Pickering. Due to this seal failure about 73,000 litres (which is enough to fill 3/4 of an average swimming pool) of water containing traces tritium (a radioactive form of hydrogen) were released into lake Ontario today at 1:30 in the morning. Ontario Power Generation says that "from a regulatory perspective, this is a very low level event. There is no impact to quality of drinking water"
These two events are unrealated to eachother, despite previous similar global events.
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