A magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 12:41 PDT on Sept. 9 approximately to the west of Vancouver Island. Felt across Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. Details soon.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 12:41 PDT on Sept. 9 approximately to the west of Vancouver Island. Felt across Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. Details soon.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer
Not Here!
did not feel it here in Langley. Hubby in Burnaby felt it….building was shaking…not too serious there.
I’m here in Central Vancouver and didn’t feel a thing.
daughter at UBC did not feel it either…she was shocked when I called her!
finally breaking news on CBC!!! LOL, I saw first news of it on THE BLAZE.COM of all places! Hilarious! Haven’t seen it on Sun yet.
I live on the 21st floor in Burnaby and my building swayed a good 4 to 6 inches.
The newswatchcanada website had something up from the usgs at 1:02 a lot faster than any of the lamestream.
it was 16 miles deep and 173 miles due west of my location.
I just thought it was the useless fat guy in our office hurrying to catch th elunch truck because he was out of crap to stuff down his throat.
Expect to see more , but probably not in BC or Canada. Seems every time we have an Earthquake somewhere else in the world, its counterbalenced on the opposite side of the Earth.
Sure have been a lot of then though.
Just checked with my friends along the east coast of Vancouver Island. No one felt it there either.
A buddy of mine in the Comox Valley posted on Facebook that he felt it almost an hour ago.
Felt it here in Nanaimo. Deck chair started to move back and forth and the dogs started barking. My first earthquake. Very weird. Neighbour started yelling “geez was that an earthquake?” His wife replied “yes it was dear”. Ho hum….Not very strong here but weird nonetheless.
Comox BC, was just about to get up from a rest and felt the bed shake for 3 or 4 secs, twice. Got up immediately and the wife who was upstairs felt it as well and saw the wall moving. First quake that I have ever felt. interesting.
vancouver island mike
Didn’t feel a thing here in White Rock.
Clearly a result of global climate change! 😉
A friend of mine who knows a little of seismology says that next in line for a big quake (post Chile, NZ, Japan) is Vancouver. Not great
I’m in Nanaimo, too. Due to major site preparation adjacent to us – 6 excavators, 3 drilling machines, a dozer and 4 off road mining trucks – I didn’t really notice since it may have been subsumed by all the other activity.
Nonetheless, I look at a 6.8 with almost no noticible effects a very good thing indeed. Hopefully it will have reduced some of the undersea tectonic stresses, meaning that we’re good for another hundred years or more.
Something else to blame on Bush?
Can’t the Gubmint do something about this.
or Apple, how about a ‘quake app.
Mike shouldnt have his rest interupted by random acts of nature.
Ten floors up at Thurlow & Pender, we felt like we were shuddering out of the dock on the Ferry to Nanaimo. But we didn’t have to pay a hundred bucks and she wasn’t a half hour late.
GIANT EARTHQUAKES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST,
Hyndman, Roy D., Scientific American, Dec95, Vol. 273, Issue 6
Ali G the inventor of the internet along with gay looking pal “Dr.” Suzuki says that it’s global warming. So therefore it’s a fact that white people especially white Christian conservative males are responsible for the earthquake in Vancouver.
Nuff, said the science is close enough and god of the left has spoken.
Felt nothing in Ladysmith
Maybe it will knock or shake some sence into there political class!! TEE hee sorry had to !!
I think it is quite disturbing as well and i hope no one get’s or got hurt …half of the company i work for is on that island (Viking air twin otter series 400) if that get’s nailed i am screwed.
Let’s not scare the Vancouverites any more than they naturally are. Its safe folks!
We don’t need any more of em coming over the mountains than already do every year now. Look at what’s becoming of Calgary & Edmonton these days. Better to visit, spend a little money, enjoy their vistas, culture(s) and sea air than condemn ourselves before our time. Let at least one more generation of prairie province kids have a taste of freedom from liberalism and its subsequent crime culture.
Yikes! Are you dead gophers on the drug coast still alive? Please let us know either way.
(Seriously, is it possible not to feel a 6.7 earthquake?)
Probably it was just Kai Nagata bringing his message to the wet coast……
did not feel it at all here in Chemainus, but my colleague sure did in Port Alberni, also apparently it was not hard to miss up-Island, like around Courtenay and Campbell River, and the northern Islands like Hornby and Denman.
The earth opened up and consumed New Westminster, damage is estimated at $500.
I was laying under my car on the floor of the garage and felt the shaking very distinctly. I am 20 Kms south east of Chilliwack and am surprised we shook so much considering how far from the coast we are and that we are in a narrow valley. The shaking was very rapid and seemed to slow over time. About 30 seconds or so. I guess this is a precursor to the “biggun” that the media scares folks with from time to time. I’m gonna start hoarding stuff.
There I was doing my best, and my wife opened her eyes and murmured “that’s more like it.”
Bada Boom.
Didn’t feel it in Victoria….bedrock.
Building didn’t even rattle
Damn, Stuart you beat me to it.
I have to laugh though, every time we hear of something like this, I point out the earthquake or volcano web sites and most Canucks don’t believe how often and active old Mother Earth really is. Seems like us carbon units living on the crust are only along for the ride in the grand scheme of things.
p.s. now the wife will expect this all the time. /rimshot
LOL!! Someone in the comments following a CBC story on this said: “Reading the comments on this site for sometime now, I can comfortably say the earthquake was an inside job.”
I guess it is the fault of the Canucks. They should be shaking in Vancouver, especially the judiciary branch.
Vancouver Island should be pretty safe, it’s mostly rock…Vancouver, on the other hand, is largely built on river silt and reclaimed ‘land’ and the ground under a lot of buildings will probably liquify in a major quake…with disastrous results.
I was talking to my brother outside of Comox and he felt it, even if it was on the other side of the island, but since he’s 800′ ASL on solid rock, he’s not too concerned about anything except the glacier and that’s too far off…
Has the NHL been blamed for not having an earthquake plan?
That’s 2 for the west coast in as many weeks. Not a good sign.
Small quakes from time to time are a good sign. It’s when there are no quakes for a long time that major stress builds up then lets go with a big one.
Are they rioting downtown yet?
Downtown Vancouver, didn’t find out about the Earthquake until I read it here.
If that’s a 6.7, its less violent than a punch from a 3 day old baby.
Didn’t feel a thing.
It’s Vancouver Island’s fault, too many people on the left there-retired school teachers, civil servants and stinkin’ hippies; caused it to tip slightly.
quake was UP graded to a 6.4
so not a big deal:-))))
“Expect to see more , but probably not in BC or Canada. Seems every time we have an Earthquake somewhere else in the world, its counterbalenced on the opposite side of the Earth.
Sure have been a lot of then though.”
Posted by: Revnant Dream at September 9, 2011 4:43 PM
Serious? What knowledge do you possess? Maybe just a hunch?
Hope You’re right but maybe you’re just whistling past the graveyard.
I was looking … none of the grass huts fell down.
Early reports suggest looting hasn’t started yet.
I’m in Nanaimo as well….didn’t feel a thing.
One and only tremour I ever felt was in the late 90’s.
BTW, I like your prediction, No Guff.
Thought it was Dead Jack finally realizing the socialist paradise he was now in wasn’t heaven.
Our son in Chilliwack saw the kitchen light swing a little, but otherwise felt nothing. He thought his wife, who was shopping in Bellingham at the time, had found a good sale item.
Here in Chemainus didn’t feel a thing. However!!
I am 2 blocks and 57m away from the water and with this late heat wave and now massive earth quake when is that lying Goracle and his flakey buddy Fruitfly going to keep their word and give me waterfront.
Further to Bemused’s 8:49 post.
Vancouver is a decidedly mixed bag, seismic risk-wise. Much of the downtown core is indeed built on bedrock. There is reclaimed land in the False Creek area. I wouldn’t be too concerned about the high ground south of False Creek; that’s underlain by bedrock, too, some of which can be seen at Queen Elizabeth Park. UBC is situated on well-consolidated older sediments.
The area that I find most scary is the City of Richmond, which is mostly peat bogs and water-saturated sediments of the Fraser delta. In a strong quake, this stuff can simply liquefy, and buildings will topple over or simply sink into the ground. The loss of life in such events may not be too severe, but the property damage will be huge.
I would also be concerned that portions of the North Shore could see massive landslides if a quake occurred after a period of prolonged rains had saturated the soil, allowing it to detach from the underlying bedrock. Not that it ever rains much there. /
A really big quake will play Hell with the transportation infrastructure in the Lower Mainland, not that it’s good for much as it is. It will be hard to get rescuers into hard-hit areas, and hard to get survivors out.