{"id":438709,"date":"2026-01-28T13:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438709\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:39:11","slug":"lightly-felt-magnitude-3-7-earthquake-gently-rocks-southern-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438709\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lightly felt\u2019: Magnitude 3.7 earthquake gently rocks southern Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Earthquakes Canada recorded a magnitude 3.7 quake north of Toronto just before 11 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It said the earthquake happened about 23 kilometres southeast of Orillia, Ont., and 99 kilometres northeast of Toronto. It occurred at 10:59 p.m. and had a depth of five kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>According to Earthquakes Canada, there were no reports of damage and \u201cnone would be expected\u201d as it was \u201clightly felt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>The site\u2019s section labelled \u201cDid you feel it?\u201d had at least 2,400 reports of people feeling the rumble, from as far west as Kitchener, through Toronto, east to Belleville and as far south as Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11640013\/alberta-judges-danielle-smith\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20230203170224-9d62076855ace9ece45714967771e34a5d7c6cf6a4ebb4914ff3b903c3473d52.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAlberta judges urge respect, independence after Danielle Smith said she wants to \u2018direct\u2019 them\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11639752\/doug-ford-ice-vehicle-new-comments\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CP175416299.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFord distances himself from ICE vehicle order placed with Ontario-based company\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Social media was abuzz with people commenting that the quake was just the latest challenge for the region, which has recently experienced extreme snow and cold.<\/p>\n<p>However, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) classified it as a bit stronger of a quake at 4.1 magnitude with a depth of 11 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0with files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Toronto<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Earthquakes Canada recorded a magnitude 3.7 quake north of Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,12645,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-438709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-earthquake","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}