Bae....did you feel the earthquake?

[CathyA]

Just wondering if you could feel the earthquake that British Columbia felt?

[bae]

Indeed so, the epicenter was just off Sidney Island in the Canadian Gulf Islands, which is essentially next door to us.

I live on the side of a solid mountain , so I felt a good solid thump, my mother who lives down in the village felt a much more sustained rolling/rumbling, but the village is built atop glacial fill/rubble.

I was waiting for the locally-generated tsunami, but we lucked out - any local quake has the potential to trigger an underwater mud/rock slide in some of the undersea canyons here that will produce a significant tsunami. Fun!

[iris lilies]

Not related to earthquakes, but bae, my friend just moved to Port Angeles to join a veterinary practice there.

where do you take your pets for vet care?

[bae]

We have several vets practicing on this island, we use one of them, and have been very happy with him for routine care. There are several other practices on some of the other islands in the county as well.

For insanely expensive and complicated things, we have had to go to the mainland a couple of times for vet care, primarily for diagnostic procedures that required use of multi-zillion-dollar equipment.

[Ultralight]

...locally-generated tsunami... any local quake has the potential to trigger an underwater mud/rock slide in some of the undersea canyons here that will produce a significant tsunami.


Whoa!

[Ultralight]

So what would you do in case of a tsunami?

[bae]

So what would you do in case of a tsunami?

A locally-generated one? Die if I were too low in elevation. The only warning would be the earthquake itself, the wave would arrive moments after, so we advise people to move to high ground ASAP. The neat part of course is that any quake can get the slide prepped "on edge", so it may slide some time later without warning. There's geological and cultural evidence that some of the islands in the area have been completely overtopped by such waves in the past.

Which is why my house is at 1200 feet up the side of a solid granite mountain.

At least we don't get tornadoes, so there's that.

[Ultralight]

Die if I were too low in elevation.

Not advisable.

[CathyA]

Well, I advise you live daily and nightly with a flotation device on. :~)

Here in Indiana we've felt a couple earthquakes in the past. A couple years ago I woke up, feeling like my bed had been dropped. then I kept hearing this rattling over my dresser.......and I realized it was a family-tree-charm picture thing and all the charms were rattling. It's a very interesting thing........but I wouldn't want to experience anything much stronger!
Here's hoping your island never slides into the abyss. Let us know if it does.........

[Williamsmith]

So I Was just curious......does anyone in climate change science suggest that man made climate change causes earthquakes. Well, the answer is yes. Of course. So if Bae bites the dust.....it might be everyone's fault. Fault.......get it?

[Ultralight]

So I Was just curious......does anyone in climate change science suggest that man made climate change causes earthquakes. Well, the answer is yes. Of course. So if Bae bites the dust.....it might be everyone's fault. Fault.......get it?

I'll admit it. I chuckled at this, dark and corny as it is! :D

[kally]

I live on the west coast on an island off Vancouver and if it was here I slept through it.

[bae]

I took the little boat over to Sidney Island today, the ocean seems undamaged by the quake, so all is good!

[Mary B.]

I live on the west coast on an island off Vancouver and if it was here I slept through it.

We felt it on our west coast island close to Vancouver Island (west of Kally, north of bae). One moderately loud bang and a bit of associated other sound -- not too alarming. Some people in Victoria had pictures fall off walls and such.

Edited to add: bae, thanks for checking on the ocean. I was afraid it might have bent a bit.

[bae]

Super article on Pacific NW earthquakes here:

http://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/great-quake-and-great-drowning

http://www.hakaimagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/content_image_custom_user_multi_column_1x/public/earthquake-foot-stories-quake.jpg?itok=G2J2eG3m

[razz]

Thanks for posting that link, Bae.. I am fascinated with the stories of the Indigenous people around the world.