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A magnitude 7.7 quake hit BC about 123 miles south-southwest of Prince Rupert, at a depth of 6.2 miles.

What's really interesting about this is that this event might offer up confirmation to a recent theory about the entire Ring of Fire being linked by big earthquakes. Over the past decade, there have been large to catastrophic quakes on the western cost of South America, New Zeland & of corse Japan.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4919451.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4919451.page GMT Re:Major Earthquake in BC
Also, Tsunami warnings are in affect on the coast.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4919492.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4919492.page GMT Re:Major Earthquake in BC
 whembly wrote:
Damn... my prayers are with ya'll...

Also, Tsunami warnings are in affect on the coast.


Tsunami hit Hawaii according to BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20113884
Doesnt look like any deaths though]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4920002.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4920002.page GMT Major Earthquake in BC http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4921011.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4921011.page GMT Re:Major Earthquake in BC BC is tusnami-proof.

Something like 95% of the coastal population is shielded from the open Pacific by a huge fething island, so we tend to just shrug at tsunami warnings.



50% of the province lives in Vancouver, which is on the mainland right at the 49th parallel on the coast, completely shielded by an island the size of cuba.

The norther coastal towns have maybe ten people living in them, collectively. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4921097.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4921097.page GMT Major Earthquake in BC
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 azazel the cat wrote:
Yeah, by and large BC is tusnami-proof.

Something like 95% of the coastal population is shielded from the open Pacific by a huge fething island, so we tend to just shrug at tsunami warnings.



50% of the province lives in Vancouver, which is on the mainland right at the 49th parallel on the coast, completely shielded by an island the size of cuba.

The norther coastal towns have maybe ten people living in them, collectively.


BC quakes also tend not to generate a large tsunami because the majority of the quakes are a strike-slip action, which is a horrizontal grinding similar to what happens along the San Andreas fault in California. Only the plates themselves are moving, rather than actually displacing the water.

To get that monster tsunami, you need a vertical displacement which tends to happen with subduction actions which are more often the case in areas like Japan.

Luckily the quake hit well north of any major population areas, because the focus was fairly shallow.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4921498.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4921498.page GMT Re:Major Earthquake in BC http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4921640.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4921640.page GMT Re:Major Earthquake in BC
LunaHound wrote:Hmmm Earthquake in my city o_O

Meh. I never even noticed it. You?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4924621.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4924621.page GMT Major Earthquake in BC BC may be Tsunami proof but one day a gigantic earthquake will obliterate Vancouver off the map.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4924947.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4924947.page GMT Re:Major Earthquake in BC
 azazel the cat wrote:
LunaHound wrote:Hmmm Earthquake in my city o_O

Meh. I never even noticed it. You?

Its hardly noticeable, for me it felt like too much coffee jitters, didn't realize it was earthquake till I got home and saw the news.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4925038.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/485408/4925038.page GMT