Did the earth move for you, too?

An earthquake in Quebec near the Ontario line sent tremors through the Boston area shortly before 2 p.m. A residential building at 1180 Beacon Street in Brookline was evacuated after it began shaking, possibly because of the quake, Neal Simpson at Brookline Patch reports.

Louis Cameron tweets he felt it at 253 Summer St. on Fort Point Channel. At 1:53, he exclaimed:

So my whole building just shook!? Did Boston just have an earthquake!? People are going crazy over here!

That was a minute after Emmanuel Tellez tweeted he felt the earth move in Downtown Crossing.

USGS map showing where people in the Northeast and the Midwest felt the quake (if you felt it, you can add your info).

Earthquakes are nothing new in Quebec, and typically occur either along the Ontario line or centered much farther north, up the St. Lawrence.

Boston has had its share of quakes, as well, most notably the 1755 Cape Ann quake, which knocked the grasshopper off Faneuil Hall and which later got the Boston area put on a select list of regions rated as having a high risk of catastrophic damage from an earthquake - a list that also includes California, Charleston, SC. and the area around New Madrid, MO. It's not that we're prone to California quakes - we're not - but that we do have a history of quakes in a city in which so many buildings and so much infrastructure are old and built on landfill, which can act like Jello during an earthquake.