Category: Earthquake
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Slept through a Tsunami warning – rainy weekend -cold weather coming
I woke up this morning and my email inbox and twitter feed are absolutely stuffed full of auto-alerts about a 7.5 Earthquake that happened near the border of Alaska and BC under the ocean around 1AM. Had I been awake I would have probably remarked on the difference in response and information between this earthquake…
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Flurries likely – Weather Sation coming home – no Tsunami
The winds are shifting to the Northwest. In fact there is a Gale warning in effect for the South part of the West Coast with gales up to 30knots today. Brrrr. We were zero here in the Valley this morning. Any precipitation that falls is likely to be white or at least slushy. Luckily, the…
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Earthquakes – Tsunamis – Glad it wasn’t Worse.
Well that was exciting. In case you’ve been living under a rock (it may have moved), there has been a lot going on in the past 24 hours. There was a major Earthquake, 7.7 on Haida Gwaii almost directly underneath the village of Sandspit. The picture below shows the earthquake and all of its aftershocks…
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Strong Earthquakes Rattle Haida Gwaii – Advisory for #Alberni
Final UPDATE 11:30PM: I’ll be turning the updates back on for weather now. Thanks everyone for bearing with the site. Hope it was useful. This was a great test and I’ve learned a lot so next time I’ll be able to keep going a little better. Tsunami Advisory remains 11:17PM in Effect for Port Alberni…
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Rain Today – Earthquake drill at 10:18AM
(Check below for information on the Earthquake Drill) Hi all. The rain should start by mid morning. Around 20-30mm is expected for the day. Not enough to avoid the dryness record. But if it continues into tomorrow we have a shot. July-October, 1896 got 159mm, 1929 got 214.9mm, and 2012 has 115.6mm 116mm so far.…