237 replies to this topic

[Matt R.]

How about a smaller one. Maybe some water? Food? Meds?

[todd]

How about a smaller one. Maybe some water? Food? Meds?

Just look at Calgary. Not just for an earthquake.

[Victoria Watcher]

For years, Metro Vancouver has been worrying about the threat of the “Big One,” a megathrust earthquake expected to hit coastal B.C. one day.

 

But before it finally hits, residents could get a precious warning.

 

An earthquake early detection system has been activated in British Columbia to provide the public and infrastructure managers with up to “tens of seconds” of notice ahead of a potentially harmful tremor.

 

Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said when a strong earthquake is detected, alerts will be transmitted automatically to British Columbians via cellphones, radio and televisions.

 

He said the system, jointly announced by the federal and B.C. governments Thursday, would also allow managers of critical infrastructure to take immediate action such as halting traffic from driving onto bridges or into tunnels.

 

"Every year in Canada, nearly 5,000 earthquakes are recorded," Wilkinson said at a news conference in Richmond, B.C.

 

"Fortunately, most of these are small and pose no serious threat, but large damaging earthquakes can and will occur," said Wilkinson, adding that the most potentially damaging tremors in Canada could occur in western B.C., as well as the Ottawa-Québec City corridor.

 

B.C. Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness Bowinn Ma said seismologists had been warning for decades of a major earthquake in the province, and the new system can give “seconds, to tens of seconds” of advance warning for people to "drop, cover and hold on."

 

 

https://www.timescol...d-in-bc-9452391

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 29 August 2024 - 08:35 PM.

[Nparker]

How much is it costing to give people half a minute of extra time to panic?

[LJ]

How much is it costing to give people half a minute of extra time to panic?

Are your minutes shorter than mine?

[Barrister]

This is simply stupid. By the time you absorb that there is an alert it has already it you. Only the woke would come up with such a bad idea.

[Victoria Watcher]

I think of you really practiced it might be useful. But not to most. If they are going to close bridges etc. it must be automated. Big gates drop. They have some automation in Japan.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 31 August 2024 - 07:44 AM.

[max.bravo]

Wife and I jolted awake on the peninsula by a pretty strong shake. It was a very short event - but it rattled the bed and entire house and sounded like one loud boom.
Kids slept through it.
USGS says 4.1 near saanichton.
https://earthquake.u...50041/executive

[Nparker]

Definitely felt it downtown.

[max.bravo]

I was already awake, so I heard the low rumble run-up — just enough time to ask myself, “is that an earthquake?” Suddenly— BOOM. I think it was the loudest earthquake I’ve ever experienced. Very short duration of shaking, but sounded like a thunder peal.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Blair M.]

My Apple Watch confirms that I indeed was woken at 4:05am, and was awake during the quake. 

But I have no memory of the quake, or being awake, which only confirms that I'm likely losing my marbles.

 

Although they don't advertise it as such, the Apple Watch is apparently very useful for documenting ones overall decline!

[Mike K.]

^lol!

I slept right through it in Sooke. I’ll have to call mum in the city and see how it went for her.

[Barrister]

Wife lived through the Northridge quake so this did not really shake her up,

[dasmo]

I was up. I seem to have a lasting jet lag. Felt nothing. 🤷🏽

[sebberry]

My Apple Watch confirms that I indeed was woken at 4:05am, and was awake during the quake. 

But I have no memory of the quake, or being awake, which only confirms that I'm likely losing my marbles.

 

Although they don't advertise it as such, the Apple Watch is apparently very useful for documenting ones overall decline!

 

My immediate thought upon being woken up was it must have been the neighbor going to the bathroom, but they don't usually walk *that* heavy.  When I saw my watch on the charger lit up, I knew it was something bigger like an earthquake.  

[LJ]

Didn't feel a thing.

[Victoria Watcher]

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That's quite something.