Ring Of Fire/BC/The Big One

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Richmond's done like a dogs' dinner, oh how they have been scammed!!

[Gary Oak]

There is a video of a neighbourhood in Japan during the Fukushima quake where the land starts going underwater and the guy videoing was getting quite alarmed. This just might happen to Ho's plot of silt in Richmond

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[size=150]7.7 Quake Hits Haida Gwaii [8PM Sat 2012]

 Are You Ready Richmond[/size]



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[size=200]Pacific Northwest at risk for mega earthquake [/size]



LOS ANGELES — The disaster in Chile has brought new attention to an undersea fault along the Pacific Northwest capable of producing the same type of mega earthquake and inflicting heavy damage on bustling cities like Seattle, Portland and Vancouver.



The fault has been dormant for more than 300 years, but when it awakens — tomorrow or decades from now — the consequences could be devastating.



The last rupture unleashed the largest known quake to hit the Lower 48 — a magnitude-9 that sent tsunami waves crashing into Japanese coastal villages.



Recent computer simulations of a hypothetical magnitude-9 quake found that shaking could last 2 to 5 minutes — strong enough to potentially cause poorly constructed buildings from British Columbia to Northern California to collapse and severely damaging highways and bridges.



Such a quake would also send powerful waves rushing to shore in minutes. While big cities such as Portland and Seattle would be protected from severe flooding, low-lying seaside communities may not be as lucky.



The Pacific Northwest "has a long geological history of doing exactly what happened in Chile," said Brian Atwater, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and University of Washington. "It's not a matter of if but when the next one will happen."



The Pacific Northwest fault behaves much like the one that broke offshore Chile that triggered a magnitude-8.8 quake. Shaking lasted 2½ minutes and the temblor destroyed or badly damaged 500,000 homes.

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Fucking moron Secrious.  Nothing happened in Richmond.

[Securious]

Fucking moron Secrious.  Nothing happened in Richmond.

my oh my you are a blessed wordsmithian!! "Fucking moron"..is that it, little thing?

Notice I said "are you ready"...well are you little man

You wouldnt be living in Verbotten' Cursed'Richmond would you little one

of course that wouldnt have been Canada's 3rd biggest earthquake now would it

No way it could have been felt all the way down to Richmond now could it

My My Richmond folks must be shiiting bricks right now as they are sitting er.. [shiiting] [trouble with my pronouncations lately, sorry..new teeth] on nothing but sand and silt!!!

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Updated

7.7-earthquake struck near Haida Gwaii

Quake hit along Queen Charlotte fault

No injuries reported

Largest recorded wave at 44 centimetres



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RAW Quake and pipelines?1:39



Visitors and Oahu residents in Honolulu watch the water level in Ala Wai Harbour while waiting for the arrival of a tsunami Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu.



(Eugene Tanner/Associated Press)

A 6.3-magnitude aftershock struck off the coast of B.C.'s Haida Gwaii islands Sunday morning — less than 24 hours after Canada's strongest earthquake in more than 60 years hit the same area.



Officials said the temblor hit 64 kilometres southwest of Sandspit at a depth of 19 kilometres just before noon Sunday. A tweet from Emergency Information B.C. said indicated that no tsunami alerts were issued.



Erin Wilson, who lives in Skidegate, B.C., was speaking to the CBC News as the tremor shook.



"It's non-stop," she said. "You hear things creaking and cracking and you hear — oh, another one right now. It's pretty scary."



More than 30 aftershocks have hit the area after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck Saturday evening, and several of the aftershocks measured at least 4 in magnitude.



The initial quake triggered tsunami warnings from the Washington border to Vancouver Island and as far away as Hawaii. But the warnings were cancelled early Sunday, several hours after they were issued.



Saturday's quake struck at 8:04 p.m. PT and was also centered off Haida Gwaii, formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands. Some residents reported feeling the quake as far away as Edmonton and Yukon.



Residents near the centre of the quake said the violent jolting from the initial tremor lasted for up to a minute, but no injuries or major damage have been reported.



The quake shook homes in several B.C. communities, including Sandspit, Masset, Terrace, Prince Rupert, Kitimat, Prince George and Quesnel. Residents of Haida Gwaii reported a 90-minute power failure.



"I thought right away, we're having a big landslide," said Dave Martinek, who lives in Queen Charlotte City on the island.



VIDEO: Masset, B.C. resident Peter Marks describes what he felt.

More B.C. earthquake stories.

"And then it progressed and kept on progressing, and the whole house was just shaking — pictures on the walls.



"I got my son, who was having a nap. He was stabilizing the book shelves. The windows and everything were just creaking," he said. "It was just pure hell there for a while."



Masset fire Chief Stephen Grosse described a frightening night.



"I felt the quake start, and I just yelled to my wife, 'We're having an earthquake.' This one didn't seem to want to stop, it just seemed to get more and more intense," he said.



"The intensity of it — it just kept going. We had lamps in the house fall over, the chandelier we've got in the kitchen was just swaying. You could barely stand. I've never been more scared in my life."



Tsunami warnings were issued for the North Coast, the Haida Gwaii islands, parts of the central B.C. coast, the coast of Alaska and for the Hawaiian islands.



Early Sunday morning, the warnings in both B.C. and Hawaii were downgraded to advisory status, meaning evacuations were no longer necessary, and they were cancelled altogether a few hours later.



Much of the B.C. coast, including the northern and southern ends of Vancouver Island, remained under an advisory overnight Sunday, indicating a tsunami could produce strong currents that would be dangerous to those near the water.



"We're very very grateful and thankful that we can go home tonight, counting our blessings," Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie told reporters after the tsunami warnings was downgraded.



"The water is still treacherous, still dangerous, and the beaches still need caution, but we can go home."



'Very grateful'

Hours after the earthquake, Dennis Sinnott, who works at the Institute of Ocean Sciences, said the largest wave hit Langara Island, a northern Haida Gwaii island, and measured just 69 centimetres.



'It was just pure hell there for a while.'

—Resident of Queen Charlotte CityThere were evacuations in Haida Gwaii and Port Edward, near Prince Rupert.



"It looks like the damage and the risk are at a very low level," Shirley Bond, British Columbia's minister responsible for emergency management said. "We're certainly grateful."



Bond said she's pleased overall with the response by Emergency Management B.C., adding the earthquake should be a wakeup call.



"It's a reminder that you need to have an emergency preparedness kit, you should have water and food for 72 hours," she said.



"I think we sometimes become complacent, but I should say that last night I don't think anyone was complacent. People were moving quickly, they were supporting one another ... My job is to ensure that we're doing it as well as possible so we'll debrief about how we responded and what we can do better."



Low-lying areas in the Hawaiian islands were evacuated late Saturday. Geophysicists had feared waves between 1 and 1.9 metres to hit the Hawaii islands, beginning about 10:30 p.m. local time Saturday (4:30 a.m. ET Sunday ET). But Hawaii seems to have been spared the worst.



Four waves about 12 minutes apart have already come ashore, but seismologists say they were smaller than expected.



Sirens sounded every half hour, starting around 7:30 p.m. local time, warning of a tsunami approaching Hawaii. The Honolulu police ordered the streets evacuated and shops closed. Tourists in beachfront hotels were told to stay above the fourth floors.



Earth plates in quake zone slide horizontally

Brent Ward, an earth scientist at Simon Fraser University, said the earthquake was the second largest to hit the country since 1949, when another earthquake was recorded in the same area with a magnitude of 8.1.



Ward said the area is known as the Queen Charlotte fault, where the earth's plates slide horizontally across each other in a strike-slip action, similar to what happens along California's San Andreas fault.



"Stresses build up because of that movement, and every so often we get the release of that stress in the form of an earthquake."



Ward said he wasn't surprised the tsunami warning was short-lived because the strike-slip movement along the fault doesn't generally trigger tsunamis.



"To trigger a tsunami you need to have a vertical movement of the sea floor, and it's that vertical movement that displaces water and triggers the tsunami," he said. "Because it's sliding across each other, you're not generally moving the water."

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a lot of peeps didn't and continue to brush it all off as just a fluke when in fact the ticking geololgical clock was long past midnight, scientists had expected it ..The mayor knows better thank God

[Securious]

I propose that this is now the 'start' of the predicted "Sub Quake"...

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Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson discusses earthquake preparedness after a 7.7-magnitude quake hit the province's northwestern coast on Saturday. October 28, 2012. (CTV)



Aftershocks off Haida Gwaii after major B.C. quake, but no major damage Earthquake preparedness CTV British Columbia

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It could have happened here. That's the message Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has for the city's residents after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit the Haida Gwaii this weekend.



While no major damage was caused by Saturday's quake, which was considered one of the biggest in Canadian history, and tsunami advisories along the B.C. coast and in Hawaii have been lifted, dozens of aftershocks were still felt throughout B.C.



"Obviously, too close to home," Robertson told reporters on Sunday. "We are very much worried about a big earthquake here, we're due for one in Vancouver...a real focus needs to happen for residents and businesses to be ready for the big one."



Robertson says the city has made a number of preparations, such as putting together a heavy urban search-and-rescue team, training volunteers, and conducting emergency preparedness workshops. However, he acknowledges that more still needs to be done.



Emergency planning coordinator Jackie Kloosterboer stresses the importance of not being complacent about emergency preparedness.



"It comes back to people being prepared," she said. "You need to know you will be on your own for possibly 72 hours for a week, you need to have emergency supplies in place. If we have damage, store shelves are going to empty very quickly."



Simon Fraser Earth Sciences Professor John Clague said the earthquake on the Haida Gwaii is not an indication that the "Big One" will hit Vancouver soon. Still, an earthquake of 7.7-magnitude would have cause extensive damage if it had happened in Vancouver or in Victoria, he said.



"It would have produced long, severe shaking, a lot of structural damage," said Clague. "Modern buildings would have tolerated it, they're designed to a very high standard. What would probably suffer would be our older building stocks, which date to a time when we didn't know about earthquakes as much as much as we do now."



Clague said if the Big One hits, Vancouver should expect to see significant physical, psychological and economic impacts. Debris would be strewn on the streets, sewage and water lines would be ruptured, and ports, ferry terminals and highways could be damaged.



"The kind of thing likely to happen is you get a string of aftershocks," he said. "This is psychologically a killer because people have survived this big jolt and yet these shocks still keep shaking the ground for days afterwards and it's difficult for people to get back to a normal life regime."



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[size=150]More Quakes Haida Gwaii[/size]



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[size=150]Videos[/size]

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happens in the wrong spot, like right under Vancouver, you now have hundreds of people dying and billions in dollars worth of damage," says Paul Kovacs, executive director, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction in Toronto.



One area in which B.C. is at risk is the number of old buildings that would most certainly topple as their foundations begin to shake. In particular, Vancouver's rickety St. Paul's hospital would crumble, trapping patients as well as emergency workers inside at a time when they'd be most needed. Kovacs credits B.C. for undertaking a $1.5-billion project to carry out seismic upgrades on schools across the province. But many houses, apartment buildings and factories that were erected prior to the mid-1970s remain at risk. "B.C's preparedness is good, but it could be much better," he says.



Vital infrastructure in B.C.'s lower mainland could also be severely damaged. The good news, says Kovacs, is that the crucial Lions Gate Bridge linking Vancouver's north shore with downtown has, over the last decade, received seismic upgrades. But what worries him is the infrastructure people don't see—the water, sewage and electrical systems. In the difficult weeks and months after the quake, water shortages and gathering sewage could cause even more harm to people than the initial quake.



The city's water supply is of particular concern. Large earthquakes frequently spark fires, and that's a very real risk in Vancouver since the city is one of the remaining few in North America to still use overhead electric transmission. Without running water, all fire crews could do is watch helplessly as the city burned. To that end the city has installed an earthquake-proof water supply in the downtown core, says Kovacs. "But that is only in one part of Vancouver," he says. "Most of Vancouver does not have a supply of water to the fire departments that would likely be operating after a big earthquake."



Kovacs also worries that a large earthquake could also take Vancouver's port out of commission. That would send aftershocks across the entire Canadian economy, since Vancouver serves as the country's primary doorway to the Asia-Pacific region. Our exports of raw materials and commodities would be crippled, while imports of consumer goods and food would have to be diverted, driving up costs.



What frustrates Kovacs and those in the emergency preparedness sector is that the only time Canadians give serious thought to the devastating effects of earthquakes is when it happens to someone else. The earthquake last month in Christchurch, New Zealand, and now the quakes in Japan are a reminder of how catastrophic a big quake in B.C. would be. Even Ottawa and Montreal are seen as inevitable victims of a major event.



Yet unlike Japan, New Zealand or the United States, Canada has yet to conduct a national study to measure the potential impact of a major earthquake. Kovacs points to a large effort the U.S. Geological Survey carried out last decade to gauge the costs should a large quake strike Los Angeles. A team of hundreds of scientists examined the terrifying scenario of a major quake occurring beneath L.A. at 2 p.m. on a weekday. The results] is increasing and that, because there are so many disasters that have been occurring all over the world, I think people are starting to recognize that nobody is safe."



B.C. emergency planners have been running annual "table top" disaster exercises, to test their responses. While these exercises have grown increasingly sophisticated, there is no substitute first hand experience, says Lyle. Emergency planners from Vancouver Island are on the ground in Christchurch, assisting officials there and learning lessons that can be applied in B.C. Planners will also keep a close watch on the situation in Japan, one of the best prepared countries on earth, but one still humbled by the awesome force of the quake.



Postscript: The most recent "Great ShakeOut" took place two weeks ago, as the CBC reports

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   We have just had a 6.3 quake just off of Vancouver Island at 6:00 AM this morning. As that documentary I watched about 20 years showed that earthquakes usually come in clusters with one jarring the neighbouring faults closer to eruption. It may soon be time for Richmond folks to start taking swimming lessons as our big one may be coming sooner than expected



   Sunday on The Queen Charlottes they experienced a 5.2 quake.