Vancouver Earthquake

[MoonCat]

I know Gravekeeper is taking some time off, but has anybody heard from him? I just saw stories online that they had an earthquake up in Vancouver. 6.4 - but they're saying no major damage. The plates apparently slipped sidways instead of up and down, so things weren't too shaken up.

[DeltaSierra]

The epicenter was on the far side of Vancouver Island, about 120 km south of Port Hardy - my folks in Nanaimo felt it, I didn't realize that it was an earthquake - at the time I was crossing a street on campus and to me it felt like a very heavy dump truck was rumbling by.

My hometown newspaper: http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailyn...3-90c448115c79



More info: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak.../us/index.html

[Gravekeeper]

I was in a pleasently medicated sleep and didn't feel a thing. I didn't even realise there was one till I read this topic >.>

[Mikkel]

I was in a pleasently medicated sleep and didn't feel a thing. I didn't even realise there was one till I read this topic >.>

Your cat didn't wake you? The only reason I were awake at the 4.7 quake we had in Copenhagen in December '08 was that both my cats panicked and tried to bury under me in my bed .

[teh_blumchenkinder]

BALLS
A 6.4 that close to me?? .______.
I didn't even notice. (Granted, I'm closer to Utah than Washington... and thank beans my sister is in NM for a wedding... *she's near the Wa-Id border...)

Glad it wasn't too freaky near the actual area... Oy.

[lordlundar]

I was in a pleasently medicated sleep and didn't feel a thing. I didn't even realise there was one till I read this topic >.>

Wow, you must have been taking fuckitall then. (props to whoever gets the joke)

[Gravekeeper]

Wow, you must have been taking fuckitall then. (props to whoever gets the joke)

Robin Williams if I remember right ;p

But its more that the other side of Vancouver Island is a heck of a ways from me. If I was at work I might have slightly felt it. But from home, not a chance, that's hours away.

They cat did wake me up several times, but she does that the closer it gets to treat time anyway so I ignored her.

[lordlundar]

Robin Williams if I remember right ;p

Yup, props to you GK.

[TheSHAD0W]

Japan experienced a 7.0 foreshock two days before the major 9.0 quake, two days later... I'm worried that the whole Juan de Fuca fault is about to unzip.

If'n I were you guys, I'd go take a vacation, maybe for a month...

[Gravekeeper]

If'n I were you guys, I'd go take a vacation, maybe for a month...

I just came back from vacation. -.-

I'm actually pretty good where I live and Vancouver itself is ironically shielded fairly well by the island. Victoria and the island, however, would just get leveled by a major quake as they'd take the brunt of it and any tsunami that came with it.

The problem is Richmond, which is on mud flats. In a major quake the ground would just turn to liquid under it. Metro Van on the other hand, is actually on quite solid ground.

[wolfie]

The problem is Richmond, which is on mud flats. In a major quake the ground would just turn to liquid under it. Metro Van on the other hand, is actually on quite solid ground.

When I moved from Vancouver to Toronto, I got a chuckle out of the name of one of the northern suburbs - Richmond Hill (to a Vancouverite, that's an oxymoron). Also, with one exception, all the Surrey jokes translate easily into Scarborough jokes - for some reason, "Living in North York means never having to say you're Scarborough" doesn't have the same ring.