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Date Posted: Friday, September 09, 04:03:56pm
Author: the tee
Author Host/IP: c-24-18-218-103.hsd1.wa.comcast.net / 24.18.218.103
Subject: Oh Shit! Carol...you okay?

Big Quake on Vancouver Island! :-(

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[> None of us here at work felt a thing. -- AurraSing, Friday, September 09, 05:47:11pm (out-bc-157.wireless.telus.com/209.121.225.157)

Dammit!!


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[> [> Don says his pool was noticeably sloshing. -- AS, Friday, September 09, 08:36:30pm (NoHost/173.180.105.8)

I think people who were higher up may have felt something around here, reports from the lower mainland say that swaying was more noticeable in taller highrises.

Eh!


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[> 6.4! -- Lij, Saturday, September 10, 05:18:56am (adsl-108-67-94-116.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/108.67.94.116)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usc0005rsj.php

It mostly affected the Pacific Coast as it was offshore:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake/c0005rsj/

At a depth of 14.3 miles it must have been in the subduction zone that dives under Vancouver Island and the Pacific NW of the US. That's the same sort of zone which broke and caused the Japanese 9+ quake. The Juan de Fuca microplate is being subducted under the North American plate.

I think I would expect more earthquakes to come. Probably not as large as this one though. Or maybe this was a precursor to something bigger? No way to tell right now.

Sorry....

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