Anyone in BC...?

[Guest]

Did you feel the earthquake?

[Guest Derek L]

Did you feel the earthquake?

Nope, but it was off the coast of Northern BC….I read online that there is a Tsunami warning from Northern Vancouver Island up to Alaska…………What I find telling is that we heard about it from our son who was chatting online with our nephew who lives up in Prince George and felt it……….Thank god for Facebooking teenagers, since clearly the local BC media, Government and Provincial Emergency Program aren’t up to the task of informing the public about a 7.7 earthquake

[Guest]

It was on the CBC website, but not on "The National" yet.

Watch out for the tsunamis.

http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=e03a6e895721fff1&hl=en&gl=CA&source=web

[msj]

On central Vancouver Island, didn't notice a thing.

Out for dinner with friends though and their cat was acting funny.

At the time we just assumed a bear was outside but now it is obvious the earthquake was making her all wiggy.

[Guest Derek L]

On central Vancouver Island, didn't notice a thing.

Out for dinner with friends though and their cat was acting funny.

At the time we just assumed a bear was outside but now it is obvious the earthquake was making her all wiggy.

That’s funny, just got off the phone with my sister, who lives on Southern Vancouver Island (West Coast) and she’s says she felt it………So far, haven’t heard of anyone getting hurt though….

[Michael Hardner]

Stay safe West coast people... Tweet & Facebook this too

[BC_chick]

There's a lot of thunder, it's a very spooky night.

Thank you Michael Hardner. I'm not on the Island but my niece lives there.

[eyeball]

I didn't feel a thing on the South Coast of Vancouver Island. I'm above any inundation zones myself by about 30 meters but It sounds like lots of people hereabouts were told to flee. I suspect there'll still be people parked at Sutton Pass halfway to Port Alberni come the dawn. I've seen that here before during tsunami alerts over the years.

It sounds like I'll still have a job tomorrow and the boat will still be where I left it tied up.

[Sleipnir]

Did you feel the earthquake?

I phoned my two friends in Victoria this morning to ask if they're okay.....they didn't even know about the quake!

[WWWTT]

Thank God nobody was hurt!

It seems kind of rare/odd actually,such a powerful quake and not even a single injury.

I hope that this was "the big one" that BC was due for and not the warm up act.

WWWTT

[Guest]

Apparently it's a different fault than the one that's supposed to epicentre in the Campbell River area and affect the Lower Mainland and Southern Vancouver Island. It might have released some pressure? I hope so. Both my kids are in Vancouver.

The first indication of the earthquake for me was the simple CBC website headline: "Breaking news: 7.7 earthquake hits BC coast". No indication there that it was centered in Haida Gwaii. My blood went cold.

[Guest Derek L]

I phoned my two friends in Victoria this morning to ask if they're okay.....they didn't even know about the quake!

It’s funny, talked to my parents, who live in Oak Bay, and they too didn’t feel anything.

[Guest Derek L]

Thank God nobody was hurt!

It seems kind of rare/odd actually,such a powerful quake and not even a single injury.

I hope that this was "the big one" that BC was due for and not the warm up act.

WWWTT

I agree 100%..........

[Pliny]

Watching a movie in surround sound. My subwoofer would have over ridden that one. Didn't feel a thing here in Surrey.

[WWWTT]

Watching a movie in surround sound. My subwoofer would have over ridden that one. Didn't feel a thing here in Surrey.

I think if you were closer to the epicenter,you would have noticed.

WWWTT

[WWWTT]

Actually this earthquake was close to something.

And that is the proposed termination point for the Northern gateway pipeline project.

If that pipeline was up and running and this earthquake's epicenter was a little further east?

God help the environment in BC!

WWWTT

[Guest]

Well, god help the environment in Kitimat. And Enbridge's shares.

Still, earthquakes didn't stop them from rebuilding San Francisco, and I sure didn't see any slow down in Vancouver's new construction when it was realised that eventually it's all going into the Georgia Strait.

[Sleipnir]

I think if you were closer to the epicenter,you would have noticed.

WWWTT

I think you had to be on the right plate to feel it.

[Guest]

Actually, there are those who claimed to feel it in Edmonton. As I'm between the quake and Edmonton, and I never felt a thing, I doubt that was what they felt.

[DogOnPorch]

It was a-rockin in the Caribou country. 'Feeling it' can vary depending upon the type of soil/ground you're on. However, it wasn't nearly as strong FEELING as the one that hit this area back in the 1980s. That was only a 5.5 but caused much more damage...it was much, much closer.

[Guest]

Interesting effect of the quake.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/02/bc-earthquake-hotspring/

[The_Squid]

Luckily no tsunami.

Many people may have been lost in some coastal communities due to the incompetence of the Province in getting the word out. A warning occurred ~40 minutes later than the Alaskans put out their warning. Pathetic.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/10/29/bc-earthquake-response-warning.html

Emergency Information B.C. issued its first tsunami warning on Twitter at 8:55 p.m. — long after the news stations had already begun reporting on the earthquake and local civic leaders had begun evacuations based on the U.S. alerts.