…of course, there was no instrumentation to accurately record the actual seismic data of the first quake. Some citizen scientists believed the epicenter to be somewhere under the former-day city of Quebec. The vibrations were reportedly felt all the way into the central areas of the continent. There were at least three significant aftershocks in the seven days following the event. The damage to city infrastructure was immeasurable. There is no evidence to suggest that the earthquake was in any way related to the rain event that followed, except in as much the earthquake had loosened a great deal of earth and debris, reducing the land area’s rainfall threshold for debris flow. It is postulated that the rain event may have been a hurricane that developed off the East Coast of the Contine
