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How the worst blackout in North America played out in Ontario

TORONTO — At 4:11 p.m. on Aug. 14, 2003, the system supervisor in the control room overseeing Ontario’s electrical grid saw four alarms pop up on his computer screen. Then came 30,000 more. “It looks like we’ve had a disturbance,” Todd Parcey recalls saying, in what proved to be a …

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‘Lightly felt’ earthquake reported in southern Ontario originating near Buffalo, N.Y.

Residents in southern Ontario reported they “lightly felt” a 3.8-magnitude earthquake that had originated just south of the border near Buffalo, N.Y., on Monday. The earthquake was reported in West Seneca, N.Y. — just southeast of Buffalo — at around 6:15 a.m. It was initially reported by Earthquakes Canada at …

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