Social Observations About the Earthquake

I had an interesting observation about yesterdays earthquake. Everyone at my office, like myself, was surprised to feel our desks and cubicles shake. However shortly after a buzz began to fill the office. People were sending emails and calling friends to see if they had felt the quake too. Soon news reports came in and people were talking about the scale and size of the quake. The main chatter that I overheard was the claim that "they even felt it all the way in Ottawa." I find this interesting. These comments suggests that the epicentre was in or near Toronto. However we soon learned that the Quake itself was 60km north of Ottawa. Why did people suddenly assume that the quake was located in Toronto and only "felt" as far away as Ottawa when technically it was located in Ottawa and felt"all the way" in Toronto and Montreal? Is this an example of people simply assuming that they themselves sit at the proverbial and, in this instance, literal epicentre? Or is this an example of that Toronto egoism the rest of the country complains about? Or perhaps I am reading way too much into this. Maybe a little bit of all three.