Earthquakes Canada says quake hit shortly after 6 a.m. ET and was felt in Niagara, Hamilton, GTA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An\u00a0earthquake\u00a0near Buffalo, N.Y., with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2,\u00a0was “lightly felt” in parts of southern Ontario Monday morning, according to Earthquakes Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I woke up to it,” St. Catharines, Ont.\u00a0resident\u00a0Stephen Murdoch\u00a0told CBC Hamilton<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Murdoch said his house shook around 6:15 a.m. ET<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I\u00a0felt what I guess you would consider a small jolt and continuous shaking \u2026. about 15 to 20 seconds,” he said<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The federal agency\u00a0says<\/u><\/a>\u00a0it doesn’t expect any damage would come from the reported earthquake, but said as of roughly 8 a.m., there were more than 200\u00a0reports of people in southern Ontario\u00a0feeling the rumble, including in Hamilton, the Greater Toronto Area and\u00a0as far as Quinte West, Ont., near Belleville\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S.\u00a0says<\/u><\/a>\u00a0the earthquake occurred in West Seneca, N.Y. and labelled it a 3.8 magnitude quake some three kilometres beneath the surface<\/p>\n\n\n\n Musician Rich Jones said he felt the rumble in Hamilton<\/p>\n\n\n\n “My dog started barking and the bed was shaking for a few seconds. Never felt an earthquake here before. Wild,” Jones tweeted<\/p>\n\n\n\n‘The bed was shaking’<\/h2>\n\n\n\n