An earthquake that struck Canada could be felt in Michigan, including in St. Ignace and on Mackinac Island, Wednesday, June 23, around 1:45 p.m., but no local damage was reported.

The 5.0 magnitude earthquake hit about 35 miles northeast of Ottawa, Ontario, near the Ontario and Quebec Border and was 10.2 miles below the earth's surface, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Several people felt the earthquake in the Straits area.

Jerry Fenlon of St. Ignace, an employee for Belonga Plumbing, was in the offices at the end of Arnold Line Dock on Mackinac Island when he felt the dock moving.

“It was an odd feeling I've never felt before,” he said.

He also noticed that about a hundred employee bikes parked outside were shaking.

“They were moving only about a half an inch, so I couldn't figure out what it was,” he said. “And they were all doing the same thing. So I was looking at them for about 10 seconds and wondering, 'what's going on?'”

He and some of the nearby dock employees shrugged off the incident, joking that it was probably just an earthquake. Later, he found out that it was.

In St. Ignace, George Gyftakis was at home when the quake struck, causing his rocking chairs to rock by themselves and rattling his possessions.

“All the time I've been here I've never felt anything like that,” he said.

Sheri Gould was at the Mackinac County Community Action Agency on Reagon Street when she felt swaying from the quake for about 10 seconds. While she felt it, she said others nearby did not seem to notice.

Also on Mackinac Island, Reinette Murray and Pam Fochtman were both sitting at their desks at the Murrays' Mackinac Realty office on Market Street when they felt the earth move.

When they felt it, they looked up at each other at the same time.

“It's hard to describe the feeling,” Mrs. Murray said. “It was like sitting on a spinning top.”

Ms. Fochtman went outside to ask workers who were painting the building if they had felt the earth move, but the painters laughed and did not believe her.

Reports indicate that people felt the tremor from Detroit to Sault Ste. Marie and as far away as Cincinnati and New England.

Don Blakeman, a geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center, said that those in the area were able to feel the quake because it was a large earthquake that sent shocks long distances across the region.