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Vancouver Island Earthquake

September 12, 2011 by · Comments Off on Vancouver Island Earthquake 

Vancouver Island EarthquakeVancouver Island Earthquake, The earthquake of magnitude 6.4 earthquake centered off the coast of Vancouver Island on Friday afternoon, went almost unnoticed in the North Olympic Peninsula.

The quake was centered about 12:41 p.m. 130 kilometers northwest of Neah Bay at a depth of 14.3 kilometers, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

“There is no tsunami alert, warning or advisory for the coast of Washington,” said the Office of the Clallam County Sheriff in a statement.

“There were no reports of anyone in the county that may have felt the earthquake. There are no reports of damage to the British area of ??Colombia.”

Janine Bowechop, executive director of the Makah Cultural and Research Center in Neah Bay, was working at the museum when the quake struck.

“I do not feel anything,” Bowechop. “But I’m one of the largest buildings in the city.”

Makah Marina, Bob Buckingham was at home Neah Bay during the earthquake and do not feel the quake.

Clallam Bay Fire Chief Patricia Hutson-English did not feel the quake.

“And I have not heard of someone who felt” he said.

Karin Ashton, a volunteer at the Clallam Bay-Sekiu Chamber of Commerce visitors center, said: “This is the first time I’ve heard of him.”

“We did not hear a noise or anything,” said Ashton.

“It was very peaceful and quiet.”

Bryon Monohon Forks Mayor and City Attorney Holders Rod Fleck both said they did not notice the earthquake.

Monohon said there were reports the quake Component Forks.

The Tsunami Warning Center Pacific said the quake did not generate a tsunami, but felt as far away as Vancouver, BC, and San Francisco with hundreds of reports feeling that in Seattle.

It was felt hundreds of miles away – in the newsroom in Vancouver Vancouver Sun, more than 180 miles away, the lights swayed for half a minute when the earthquake struck – a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Dispatcher in the nearby town of Tofino, near Ucluelet, said there were no reports of damage and most people just felt it.

Seven people in Sekiu and Port Angeles five reported USGS Web site that they felt the quake.

Individual reports originated in Sekiu, Sequim and Port Townsend.

Also, there were no reports of damage to nearby parts of the state of Washington, including the islands of San Juan and the North Olympic Peninsula.

In Seattle, the Department of Transportation sent inspectors as a precaution to check for damage to the Alaskan Way Viaduct, the aging elevated highway along the coast of Seattle and Deception Pass Bridge and Highway 520 floating bridge over Lake Washington.

The quake was centered 73 miles offshore west-northwest of Ucluelet, just under half of the west coast of the island about 179 miles from Victoria.

Initially reported as an earthquake of 6.7 magnitude, but was later revised.

“It looks like an earthquake in a secondary failure – not the Megathrust, which was our major concern,” said John Vidale, director of the Seismic Network of the Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington in Seattle.

“This is the generation of a number of aftershocks, but there is a small chance that it will stimulate activity in the big flaw on the coast.”

Brent Ward, a professor in the department of Simon Fraser University earth sciences in Vancouver, British Columbia, said the quake was probably too deep to generate a tsunami.

Vancouver Island Earthquake

September 11, 2011 by · Comments Off on Vancouver Island Earthquake 

Vancouver Island EarthquakeVancouver Island Earthquake, An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the west coast of Vancouver Island at 12: 41 pm on Friday rocked Metro Vancouver and other parts of the province.

Some felt the earthquake in Nanaimo, especially in the far north. Furthermore, it appears more evident in the area ParksvilleQualicum.

There were no reports of damage or injuries from the quake, whose epicenter was located 135 kilometers south-southeast of the city of Port Hardy, on the island, the U.S. Geological Survey said in her evaluation.

At least one primary school was evacuated temporarily Nanaimo, and some in the Regional District of Nanaimo staff followed emergency procedures when the tremor occurred.

The movement caused a sensation of nausea McGirr Elementary School assistant Tanya Paz.

“I thought maybe I needed something to eat,” said Paz. “We are like a wave, almost trembling.”

She believes her class felt the movement, “because we were sitting in a quiet room.” Others in the gym did not notice.

After confirming an earthquake evacuation plan put into effect.

“The children were very quiet and well behaved, that followed everything exactly. It was incredible.”

Employees working in the most original RDN’s office in Hammond Bay Road felt the movement and were under their desks.

“Several people felt in A major, central part of the building, the stairs and in our recreation center in Qualicum Beach – Parksville much thought,” Jani said Drew, RDN emergency coordinator.

“People remember the bit shaken last drop, cover and hold”.

Some staff reported feeling the movement in the town hall, but the emergency program of the city is only activated when the injury or damage involved.

But Karen Lindsay, director of emergency preparedness said residents should not expect the city to help in a big earthquake.

“We have many resources, so it will fire and care for serious injuries. We’re going to be quite widespread,” said Lindsay. “Are we going to deliver food and water after that? We are told to be prepared for a minimum of 36 hours. Realistically, more like seven days.”

Each earthquake sparks calls from homeowners hoping to add earthquake insurance to their policies. However, insurance companies often put a hold on the consideration of new policies in such circumstances.

“We never thought will happen, then when it does (people apply),” Courtenay said Geddes, Western Financial.

Vancouver Island Health Authority said there were no injuries or damage to its facilities, but a ferry terminal in Campbell River was evacuated.

The USGS reported that it was at a depth of 23 kilometers, the revision of its original assessment that it was only two miles below the surface.

The Tsunami Warning Center Pacific did not issue a warning, saying that “no destructive widespread tsunami threat.”

There were no immediate signs of damage in downtown Vancouver. In the Vancouver Sun newsroom, the lights halfminute was swinging when the quake struck.

The largest earthquake in recent history was the 6.8 magnitude Nisqually earthquake southwest of Seattle in February 2001.

Only the ninth in this area earthquake in 125 years is larger than magnitude 6, it cracked the dome of the Capitol building in Olympia, damaged the control tower at Sea-Tac airport and shook bricks from chimneys in Victoria.

A small earthquake struck the northern tip of Vancouver Island in March, without causing significant damage.

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