Article content Montreal-area residents may have felt the ground shake beneath us at three minutes after 7 a.m. Monday morning. Vibrations from jackhammering? A passing dump truck? Construction season is, after all, in full swing and that’s pretty much starting time. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Hanes: After more than a year of living through a pandemic, an earthquake hardly rattles us Back to video Nope. This was the real deal: the earth actually shook from a tremblor centred north of Montreal that registered magnitude 3.9. It was felt far and wide across Southern Quebec.