A small tremor on the Bruce Peninsula at the end of last week appears to be the result of a quarry blast.
On Friday at 5:19 p.m., a 2.1 magnitude tremor with an epicentre 14 kilometres north of Wiarton registered on the national seismic network.
Research Scientist Stephen Crane with Natural Resources Canada says a caller alerted him to the incident, which he determined originated at a quarry off of Bruce County Road 9, southwest of the community of Hope Bay.
"We do get a lot of quarry blasts that we pick up with our national seismic network. It is a very sensitive network, so we can pick up things like mining events and quarry blasts," he said. "It is unusual for that area for us to pick one up."
Crane encourages anyone that felt the tremor to fill out a report on the Natural Resources Canada website.
