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A small earthquake gave residents in southeast Saskatchewan a small jolt earlier this week.
Officials with Earthquakes Canada say the 3.9 magnitude tremor was recorded 29 kilometres south of Langenburg near the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border Tuesday evening.
No damage was reported, but it was felt by people in the Spy Hill and Tantallon areas. Some took to an online forum to share what it was like.
Campers at the nearby Carlton Trail Regional Park also felt it.
“We were surprised, alarmed and had no idea what had happened,” one person wrote on volcanodiscovery.com.
Another person described a loud noise followed by shaking for several seconds.
“There was a mild shaking, then a huge bang like an explosion then everything was shaking,” they said. “I thought that someone had crashed into the building.”
The southeast area is no stranger to earthquakes. The most recent was a 4.1 magnitude quake recorded in August of 2019.
The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) operates a Canada-wide network of more than 150 instruments that are used to record earthquakes.
