Plans for possible earthquake in Vancouver?
Jan 16th 2010, 6:20 pm
#32
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Re: Plans for possible earthquake in Vancouver?
Seismic experts say we can expect a major destructive earthquake in British Columbia. We don't know when this will happen. But Vancouver and Vancouver Island is a region where some of the largest earthquakes in the world occur. History has shown they happen here, there was a magnitude 7.3 one on central Vancouver Island in 1946 and a 8.1 in the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1949 and a massive 9.0 in 1700, one of the world's largest earthquakes ever. So given how devastating the Haiti one has been do you think we are ready for when the big one hits here? Have you personally made any contingency plans? It makes you think doesn't it?
The mental shock of an earthquake is something one is very unlikely to be abkle to prepare for.
It will be if the water gets too high.
Jan 17th 2010, 11:15 am
#33
Happy in NB
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Re: Plans for possible earthquake in Vancouver?
Seismic experts say we can expect a major destructive earthquake in British Columbia. We don't know when this will happen. But Vancouver and Vancouver Island is a region where some of the largest earthquakes in the world occur. History has shown they happen here, there was a magnitude 7.3 one on central Vancouver Island in 1946 and a 8.1 in the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1949 and a massive 9.0 in 1700, one of the world's largest earthquakes ever. So given how devastating the Haiti one has been do you think we are ready for when the big one hits here? Have you personally made any contingency plans? It makes you think doesn't it?
Jan 17th 2010, 12:25 pm
#34
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