I hear the US west coast (Cali specifically) is overdue for a huge quake too? Given that two large quakes happen in a month and several major ones over the last decade I'm glad I live in Calgary for sure.
Yeah from what I've heard pretty much the entire west coast (US & Canada) is on a major fault line. Vancouver is pretty much guaranteed to have a "big one" -- in fact I saw a news report last month saying the region is due for it. People here seem a little unprepared. I suppose there's not much you can really do about it. Gotta live your life.
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Yeah from what I've heard pretty much the entire west coast (US & Canada) is on a major fault line. Vancouver is pretty much guaranteed to have a "big one" -- in fact I saw a news report last month saying the region is due for it. People here seem a little unprepared. I suppose there's not much you can really do about it. Gotta live your life.
When i was 10 my family took a trip out to some condo's on Vancouver Island, they wanted to buy but they were worried about the Tsunami and earthquakes even back then... Nothing has happened. Im sure it will one day but its a crap shoot whenever the earth decides it wants to change.
Yeah from what I've heard pretty much the entire west coast (US & Canada) is on a major fault line. Vancouver is pretty much guaranteed to have a "big one" -- in fact I saw a news report last month saying the region is due for it. People here seem a little unprepared. I suppose there's not much you can really do about it. Gotta live your life.
From what I read, the Vancouver area typically gets a massive earthquake roughly every 500-1000 years. The last one was around 600 years ago, so anywhere in the next 400 years is likely. In geological terms, that is not long, but in human terms, I wouldn't base any decisions that effect me in my lifetime on a devastating earthquake hitting there.
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My Cousin lives and works in Tokyo, very glad to have just found out he is fine and was not severly effected by this event. Pretty darn scary the kind of force nature can provide when it really wants to.
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From what I read, the Vancouver area typically gets a massive earthquake roughly every 500-1000 years. The last one was around 600 years ago, so anywhere in the next 400 years is likely. In geological terms, that is not long, but in human terms, I wouldn't base any decisions that effect me in my lifetime on a devastating earthquake hitting there.
Yeah the Cascadia Subduction Zone is one of only a few faults that have yet to be broken in the last 300+ years...Scientists have determined that there is anywhere from a 12-14% chance,some even going as high as ~29%, of a major earthquake(greater than 9.0 on the Richter Scale) hitting the North Western United States and Vancouver area in the next 50 years.
This could be devastating for cities like Vancouver and Seattle especially where a lot of the older buildings are made with brick and mortar.
Yeah the Cascadia Subduction Zone is one of only a few faults that have yet to be broken in the last 300+ years...Scientists have determined that there is anywhere from a 12-14% chance,some even going as high as ~29%, of a major earthquake(greater than 9.0 on the Richter Scale) hitting the North Western United States and Vancouver area in the next 50 years.
This could be devastating for cities like Vancouver and Seattle especially where a lot of the older buildings are made with brick and mortar.
So why are vancouver houses still so insanely high? i guess everyone must have really good insurance.
My Cousin lives and works in Tokyo, very glad to have just found out he is fine and was not severly effected by this event. Pretty darn scary the kind of force nature can provide when it really wants to.
Glad to hear your cousin is alright kipperfan.
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That was a short attempt at sleep.
I woke up at 4:30am as the house shook a little bit. There have been three smallish shakes from 4:30 to 6:00am two centered in the Niigata area on the west coast of Japan (the opposite side from Tokyo) and one closer to Izu south of Tokyo.
These shakes were slight but I find I'm paying a lot more attention in case the shaking gets stronger.
Although Tokyo was shaken yesterday the impact was very slight compared to the devastation that hit the Tohoku region along the North east coast.
Tokyo is slowly starting to get moving with train lines starting to run and people begining to be able to get home after a night at the station, bar or other.
Daylight is bringing new footage of the wreckage left behind by the Tsunami.
Getting a lot of mixed information about the situation at the nuclear power facilities in Fukushima. Obviously they need to get this under control quickly.
It's a clear and sunny morning in Tokyo currently about 11c.
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So why are vancouver houses still so insanely high? i guess everyone must have really good insurance.
My guess is that they are engineered to withstand a major earthquake in the area. Look at San Francisco and Tokyo, a large amount of very tall buildings while very close to very active fault lines. The advancements in architecture and design of these new high rise buildings are astounding compared to even 25 - 30 years ago.
In regards to the Yellowstone Caldera, The eruption of this "Supervolcano" will have major impacts on life in the greater Northwest region, living in Calgary there will be climate change due to the large amount of ash and gases ejected into the atmosphere but nothing life threatening.
Now that it's daylight you can see some pretty unreal shots.........pretty amazing how much destruction there is, and we're only being shown a small portion of it. Crazy.
This has to be one of the most terrifying images I've seen in years. I can't even imagine what anyone in those homes was feeling. Good Lord that's awful.
As the Tsunami swept over the big island, Cowperson had his camera gear all set.
He took 1,412 pictures of a dog.
The Hawaii event happened in darkness so not much opportunity. We were worried about some cats and the mongeese we've se eN.
The water level in the small bay here is oscillating dramatically every three minutes or so, rising and falling by about three feet, basically the tide coming and leaving every three minutes. Pretty sobering.
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