BC Earthquakes

[36Drew]

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[GordonH]

Victoria & Vancouver had little shake happen http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... uw61114971

[Lady tehMa]

So far I've seen an articles like this:

http://classmagazine.ca/2015/12/30/the-grounds-shaking-4-8-earthquake-in-lower-mainland/

http://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/earthquake-under-greater-victoria-could-kill-1-500-injure-thousands-report-1.2545705

[GordonH]

Cascadia subduction zone is over due for major quake (meaning 7+ in size).

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/crust/cascadia.php

[Farmmaa]

Apparently there were at least 45 earthquakes of various sizes yesterday along the fault lines in the Pacific...from southern California, Alaska, Hawaii...the last one being the 4.8 registered in BC.
Most were very small, from 2.2 to 4.0...with several registering above 5.0.

I admittedly do not follow seismic activity, just happened to follow a link on my FB feed after the Victoria quake.
So...are this many events in one day usual ?

[Evan]

Can't lie... The earthquake scared the crap out of me last night in Victoria....

[GordonH]

Apparently there were at least 45 earthquakes of various sizes yesterday along the fault lines in the Pacific...from southern California, Alaska, Hawaii...the last one being the 4.8 registered in BC.
Most were very small, from 2.2 to 4.0...with several registering above 5.0.

I admittedly do not follow seismic activity, just happened to follow a link on my FB feed after the Victoria quake.
So...are this many events in one day usual ?

Yearly there can be few million quakes worldwide (most are very small), 7.0 to 9.0 are rare but can happen at any moment. Scary part with no warning

[Farmmaa]

Brave residents clean up after last night's quake......

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/peo ... arRLQ0nJ5D

[GordonH]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... ral_region

[GordonH]

Bumped
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... %3Anull%7D

[GordonH]

http://www.castanet.net/news/BC/189899/ ... e-unlikely

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes ... %3Anull%7D

[Queen K]

Lots of smaller earthquakes lately. I read that small earthquakes do not necessarily mean taking the pressure off to prevent a larger one from happening.

[GordonH]

Lots of smaller earthquakes lately. I read that small earthquakes do not necessarily mean taking the pressure off to prevent a larger one from happening.

Exactly

Side note Central Africa had 5.9 couple days ago, you really don't when or where one will het.

[GordonH]

Here is earthquakes for Thompson Okanagan + little west & east from January 1, 1980 to today:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes ... %3Anull%7D

Vast majority of them are explosion in the Princeton area.
Largest being 4.5 on August 17, 2002 due north of Elkhart Rd & 97c by about 10Km

[GordonH]

Bumped
Not something the residents of Victoria really want to hear.
https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/193290 ... r-Victoria