Fire Chief Jason Whiteley says that North Bay Police Service has informed North Bay Fire and Emergency Services that there will be blasting this morning at a quarry on Marsh Drive in the city’s north end.
Just over two weeks ago, citing data from Earthquakes Canada, the staff at Science North initially identified an incident in which the ground moved and homes reportedly shook in North Bay and the surrounding area as a 2.2 magnitude event.
There was no confirmation that the shaking felt by residents was the result of blasting as initially reported, or as the staff at Science North indicated later on the morning of May 16, as a seismic event.
Another official from Natural Resources Canada later reported that what was initially thought to be an earthquake occurred as a result of the blasting and registered on the scale as an earthquake.
Fire Chief Jason Whiteley says a consultation with a seismologist from Natural Resources Canada now indicates that the vibrations detected from the NRC equipment are as a result of the blasting at the quarry by Miller Paving.
Social media lit up that morning as residents from as far as Four Mile Lake Road in North Bay to Powassan posted, wondering what had transpired.
Reports indicated that it was a paving company doing some blasting at a quarry on Birch’s Raod that caused widespread reports of everything from an explosion to a low-flying plane to an earthquake.
Earthquakes Canada initially confirmed a 2.2 magnitude earthquake occurring 2 km southeast of North Bay at 9:04am.
MyNorthBayNow.com will update this story if any seismic activity is detected.
