If you felt or heard a large rattling on Monday afternoon, you weren鈥檛 alone.

快盈v3鈥檚 office received multiple reports from residents that said they felt an earthquake-like vibration and sounds at around 1 p.m.

鈥淭he whole apartment shook,鈥� said Yellowknife resident Robert Andrews. 鈥淚t was loud, too 鈥� I thought a snow plow came down the street and hit my apartment.鈥�

快盈v3 contacted Natural Resources Canada after hearing the report to see if there had been any seismic activity in the area, but that wasn鈥檛 the case, according to one of its spokespersons.

鈥淚 checked the seismic records from our seismic network, but as far as the observations are concerned, we have not detected any significant earthquakes in the Yellowknife region,鈥� said Honn Kao, research scientist at Natural Resources Canada.

He did say there was one report of minor vibrations received via its website, suggesting that any shaking may have been caused by local sources rather than a significant earthquake.

鈥淧eople usually cannot distinguish them from the shaking of the earthquake,鈥� he said.

It turned out that the rumble felt by residents did come from a local source.

CJ Contracting, which operates a rock quarry, confirmed to 快盈v3 that a blast from the quarry was the culprit.

鈥淐J Contracting was blasting at a quarry outside of town about 5 km away and that was roughly about 1 p.m.,鈥� said Clinton Westgard with CJ Contracting.

He said that the blasting was to produce dirt to use in Yellowknife.

Kao further explained that the magnitude of the shaking may have been strong enough for the individual to feel it and report it, but it was not widespread.