Mysteries of Montreal

The Cthonians are on the move again .

...an island in the South Pacific is found, then disappears! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20442487 Sandy Island, near New Caledonia, has been shown on Google maps, but scientists looking for it find water depths of 1400m. Maybe they should have looked before the recent spate of earthquakes we had here!

 Front page of Le Soleil after the 1925 earthquake I felt my first earthquake this morning. I was woken up by at at 12.15am this morning. I say it is the first I felt, as there has been at least 1 other earthquake since I arrived here, but where I was at the time meant I didn't feel it (although others in the same building did). These happen from time to time, as Montreal is on a fault line of sorts. Actually, there are a couple of seismic zones in Quebec, with Montreal being situated in the Western Quebec Seismic Zone .     Historical Earthquakes in the Region The earthquake last night was registered at 4.5. Not large enough to cause damage, but large enough to be felt in quite a large area. There have been stronger earthquakes in the region in the past, which are summarised in this article . The largest being an estimated 7 on the Richter scale, on the 5th of February, 1663 where: Epicenter most likely in the Charlevoix-Kamouraska seismic zo...