Tag: earthquake
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Variable but pleasant week – No Tsunami Threat from Mexico quake (monitoring)
Oaxaca, Mexico quake produces threat for Mexican, Latin America coasts. Southern Mexico experienced an earthquake this morning of Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake this morning. There is no threat to the BC or US Coasts. I’m posting updates on Twitter. Hopefully the damage is not too sever from the Earthquake and resulting waves. Variable week, wet tonight,…
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Small Earthquake near Bamfield and Ucluelet.
Did you feel it? Submit a report. For Science! đ Click the image for more info and to put in a report. You can tell the USGS about what you felt here. No Tsunami threat. According to the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Centre: Magnitude changed from 4.4 to 4.8 back to 4.5 As…
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55 years since a 14 foot, $41 Million, âcheap lessonâ swept through Port Alberni. New report has good suggestions.
Just after midnight on March 28, 1964 a 2.5 metre (8ft) wave rushed up the âAlberni Canalâ, surprising mill workers and waking residents. Ninety minutes later it was followed by a 4 metre, (14ft) âwall of waterâ barreling in at 400km/hr, smashing structures, throwing logs and debris everywhere, and carrying homes off their foundations. The…
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Share your stories about the February 28, 2001 Seattle Earthquake. Here’s mine.
Do you remember that day? This morning John Cassidy at the Natural Resources Canada earthquake centre in Victoria tweeted about the 6.8M earthquake that happened 18 years ago today in Seattle, Washington. So I thought I would tell the story of my experience from that earthquake. I was a relatively new employee of Malaspina University…