Vancouver Island Earthquake

[Patti]

CNN just reported that us Geological service reported an earthquake hit Vancouver Island a bit ago..a 6.1 magnitude..


Hope everyone is SAFE! :eek!::eek!:

[Donziweasel]

Isn't Lenny up that way? You alright Lenny?

[chappy]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/28/vancouver.quake/index.html

Pretty big one, 6.1 is serious.:(

[Lenny]

Didn't even feel it. Must have been a LONG ways down. The West Coast is the tsunami area that is cause for alarm. But, the USA (Olympic Penninsula) protects the west side for 75 miles or so.The East Coast is protected by the West side of the Island. Port Renfrew would be the beginning of the alarm area heading North.

Thanks for caring ;)

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Victoria&state=BC

[Lenny]

(CNN) -- A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck at sea just west of Vancouver Island, Canada, on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The temblor's epicenter was about 95 miles (153 kilometers) west-southwest of Port Hardy, British Columbia, and about 293 miles (472 kilometers) west-northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia.

It struck at 5:37 a.m. (8:37 a.m. ET), the USGS said, and hit at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers).

The USGS originally reported the quake at 6.1 magnitude.

Thursday's quake was the latest of about two dozen temblors of magnitude 4 or above to strike in the area in the past 48 hours, according to the USGS. A 5.2-magnitude quake was the largest of those, striking the same area Wednesday.

"We're having a series in that area," Julie Martinez, a USGS geophysicist said. She said the number of earthquakes was not unusual.

"These earthquakes are too far offshore to be felt on land and too small to generate a tsunami," Natural Resources Canada said on its earthquakes Web site.

Vancouver Island sits off Canada's west coast. Its main city of Victoria sits at its southern end.

Port Hardy is the TOP of the Island. The Island is 304 miles long. I live at the southermost tip. 300 miles offshore is a LONG way out in the Pacific.

Yep, we have had a lot lately. :yes: Probably this whole place is going to drop into the sea... "Atlantis" anyone??? :D

[Lenny]

At least we freeze to death in the water here before we have to feel the "nibbling" that goes on down there :eek: I thought the 'Cudas off Key West were bad enough. This seems worse. I remember chatting with one of the KW FD divers on Buizillas boat or Poodles at the Worlds one year and I said to him that if "I" fell in, the water is sooo warm, I could float around forever... He said to me that I would not last long before I was eaten :eek: Never forgot that.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/27/keys.bodies/index.html