{"id":604239,"date":"2026-04-14T21:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604239\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:28:14","slug":"minor-earthquake-rumbles-the-ottawa-quebec-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604239\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor earthquake rumbles the Ottawa-Quebec border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published on Apr. 14, 2026, 5:56 PM<\/p>\n<p>Updated on Apr. 14, 2026, 7:10 PM<\/p>\n<p>A magnitude 4.0 earthquake was recorded Tuesday in the Pontiac region of Outaouais, Que., around 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial reports from the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us6000sq0v\/executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)<\/a>, the earthquake was recorded at 12:36 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p>Its epicentre was located near Shawville, Que., 19 kilometres north-northeast of Gatineau, at a depth of 10 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/3415aBWu24Y365CxGYFqc8\/18b433ffb816d4f205a86d52b45ddc05\/image_-_2026-04-14T141714.218.png\" alt=\"Ontario-Quebec earthquake Tuesday afternoon April 14\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image_-_2026-04-14T141714.218.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Earthquakes of that intensity are considered minor, and generally cause little damage. Many residents in the area and beyond reported on social media that they felt the tremor or heard a loud rumbling.<\/p>\n<p>This article was translated to English from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meteomedia.com\/fr\/nouvelles\/science\/phenomenes-naturels\/derniere-heure-un-seisme-de-magnitude-4-0-secoue-loutaouais\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">M\u00e9t\u00e9oM\u00e9dia<\/a>, The Weather Network\u2019s Quebec-based sister station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Apr. 14, 2026, 5:56 PM Updated on Apr. 14, 2026, 7:10 PM A magnitude 4.0 earthquake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-604239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604239","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=604239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}