r ranson wrote:I often watch the quakes on the coast. That falt line is pretty grumbly. It's when it's silent for a few months I worry as the quakes come closer to land. It's a bit like the steam release valve on a pressure cooker.
Some of the sites I watch:
bc earthquake
usgs
twit
buoy data
What worries me is that they are giving up on the emergency warning system in favour of a smartphone-based warning for things like tsunami. The last census said that over 25% of people in BC don't have a smartphone. Most of those people are the more vulnerable members of society that need help the most.
When they were running tests of this smartphone system, it seemed like maybe 30% of people I knew with smartphones were receiving them..
A couple years back there was a good sized quake way out and north. The official map showed a tsunami warning covering all of van isle and a bunch of the lower mainland..
All normal for BC. I hear it stands for Barely Competent, but honestly that seems optimistic to me.
'Theoretically this level of creeping Orwellian dynamics should ramp up our awareness, but what happens instead is that each alert becomes less and less effective because we're incredibly stupid.' - Jerry Holkins