MONTREAL - A light earthquake, magnitude 4,3 on the Richter scale, shook the regions of Lachute, Quebec, and Hawkesbury, Ontario, at 13:36 p.m. Wednesday.
The earthquake was recorded by the Department of Natural Resources Canada. The ground shook for ten seconds.
No immediate damage was reported. The shock was felt within a radius of about 50 kilometers from the epicenter, Lachute, that is, in the western suburbs of Montreal, in Cornwall, Ontario, or even by certain people in Ottawa.
The Earthquakes Canada website was again affected on Wednesday, with some visitors seeking information coming up against a blank screen.
The last time an earthquake occurred in the region, last June, the website, operated by the federal Department of Natural Resources, was also paralyzed.
Small earthquake here in Quebec!
Small earthquake here in Quebec!
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Ah and it is frequent?
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AFP reports an incident on Monday at a Canadian power station. Canadian authorities acknowledged Wednesday that thousands of liters of weakly radioactive water spilled Monday into Lake Ontario, bordering the United States, due to an incident at a Canadian nuclear power plant. "This event is minor according to the regulatory scale and has only negligible effects on the environment and no impact on human health," said Ontario Power, a major public electricity producer, in a statement. "There is no effect on the quality of drinking water," said the group, owned by the provincial government of Ontario.
Likewise, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has stated that "the radiological risk to the environment and human health is negligible".
A total of 73 liters of demineralized water (which contains weak traces of the radioactive element tritium) was accidentally released into the lake due to a leak in a pump, said Ontario Power.
The Pickering Generating Station, one of five generating electricity in Canada, is located 35 kilometers east of Toronto, the country's largest city with approximately 2,6 million inhabitants.
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Christophe wrote:Ah and it is frequent?
Did you know that?23 p.m.
AFP reports an incident on Monday at a Canadian power station. Canadian authorities acknowledged Wednesday that thousands of liters of weakly radioactive water spilled Monday into Lake Ontario, bordering the United States, due to an incident at a Canadian nuclear power plant. "This event is minor according to the regulatory scale and has only negligible effects on the environment and no impact on human health," said Ontario Power, a major public electricity producer, in a statement. "There is no effect on the quality of drinking water," said the group, owned by the provincial government of Ontario.
Likewise, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has stated that "the radiological risk to the environment and human health is negligible".
A total of 73 liters of demineralized water (which contains weak traces of the radioactive element tritium) was accidentally released into the lake due to a leak in a pump, said Ontario Power.
The Pickering Generating Station, one of five generating electricity in Canada, is located 35 kilometers east of Toronto, the country's largest city with approximately 2,6 million inhabitants.
We have more and more frequently, at least it seems to me!
This one I did not feel here in Quebec, it is more than 350 km from here!
Well, no, I didn't know!
This is still what is revealed because of the Japanese power stations, how many incidents have been hidden!
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