Posted on 07/19/2004 4:17:26 PM PDT by bd476
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A strong earthquake occurred at 08:01:48 (UTC) on Monday, July 19, 2004. The magnitude 6.3 event has been located in the VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA REGION. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)
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"Mon Jul 19, 9:35 AM ET
STRASBOURG (AFP) - A major earthquake, measuring 6.2 points on the Richter scale, hit Vancouver Island off the Pacific coast of Canada, a French seismological institute reported.
The epicentre of the earthquake was at 49.69 degrees North and 126.90 degrees West, about 300 kilometres (190 miles) northwest of Vancouver city, the Strasbourg-based Observatory of Science and the Earth said in a statement..." (End Yahoo.com News Excerpt)
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(Excerpt) Read more at earthquake.usgs.gov ...
YIKES!
Evidently, these are the same experts who correctly predicted a large earthquake in Turkey. Unfortunately, I have no links to this prediction. Anyone?
From CBC News British Columbia
http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_quake20040719
Quake shakes Vancouver Island – again
WebPosted Jul 19 2004 08:04 AM PDT
VICTORIA - Another earthquake has hit Vancouver Island.
It was centred near Nootka Sound and was the second earthquake in the area in the past two weeks.
FROM JULY 15, 2004: Moderate quake hits Vancouver Island
The magnitude 6.1 quake struck just after 1:00 a.m. PDT Monday.
People from all over the Island and in B.C.'s Lower Mainland have been calling and e-mailing the federal earthquake study centre to report the quake.
LINK: Natural Resources Canada: Current earthquake activity
LINK: USGS quake report
Scientist John Cassidy says the two quakes in the same place in such a short time is a coincidence.
"It's a little bit unusual to have two earthquakes of that size so close together in time but this is a very active region."
INDEPTH: Earthquakes
Cassidy says people experienced a shaking for anywhere from 5 to 15 seconds. Residents of highrises reported swaying for up to 20 seconds.
Got the handyman's secret weapon? :)
Check out the thread about a relatively large quake in Oregon, posted on July 12 by Oceanperch.
I hadn't realized this was "old" news, I heard nothing earlier today....
Remeber, ANY tool can be the RIGHT tool!
Did you see this thread yet?
Try sitting on the can in full grunt mode.
Well, so it looks like today's quake is just part of an ongoing event as a big slip is occurring in the region.
Was this felt in Kelowna?
I have a friend on V.C. island and she felt nothing last night. Slept right through it.
"Scientist John Cassidy says the two quakes in the same place in such a short time is a coincidence."
" 'It's a little bit unusual to have two earthquakes of that size so close together in time but this is a very active region.' "
It's interesting that they didn't label the first one a foreshock instead of a "coincidence."
That's what seismologists tend to report down here. Often it seems, if the 2nd quake is slightly smaller, they call the second earthquake an "aftershock."
The word "coincidence" makes the "events" sound a little less serious, though it's unclear that that would be a seismologist's or geologist's motivation.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Maps/US10/42.52.-130.-120.html
The big square is (roughly) proportional to the immediate "region" that shakes the most. Something this large can be felt further away.
An earlier reply indicated that he didn't feel anything in Seattle, WA.
Odd.
After any 5+ magnitude quake, is rare NOT to have aftershocks!
So what is this scientist referring to by claiming a "coincidence" of two earthquakes in the same area?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/KB_prediction.html
Here's the info you're looking for. The prediction is pretty vague over widely spread area - kind of like saying there will be snow in Alaska in January - but they apparently are credited with predicting the San Simeon quake.
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Wow!!! Bears while camping at Tahoe, now earthquakes while camping at Vancouver IS.
This series of quakes sounds a bit like the made for tv movie 10.5 which was kind of cheesy but thought provoking.
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