Worries For Canada
18 September, 2005 | This item was filled under [ Science and Technology ]
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A silent tectonic event, so powerful it has shifted southern Vancouver Island out to sea, but so subtle nobody has felt a thing, is slowly unfolding on the West Coast. Scientists who are tracking the event with sensitive seismographs and earth orbiting satellites warn it could be a trigger for a massive earthquake — some time, maybe soon.
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One Comment on “Worries For Canada”
This is interesting but what are we to make of it? Several years ago, when we lived on the coast (Bowen Island actually) and I worked daily in downtown Vancouver, before we moved to France, we were shown a video at work.
The video was called “The Big One” or something like that, and forecast all sorts of doom and gloom scenarios for Vancouver when the “big one” hit. The fact that impressed me was the amount of glass (several feet deep) that would carpet downtown sidewalks.
Just like people in the World Trade Centre would have benefitted from having parachutes so people in some future catastrophe in Vancouver could, apparently, benefit from having high protective boots in the office. The movie urged people to have disaster plans set up in their families so that they could arrange places to meet loved ones etc. It was all very gloomy.
Most people in Vancouver are like the citizens of New Orleans before Katrina. And what could they do differently? Move away?
Then, it may never happen. Basically, human beings can do little when nature does its thing.
Iain Benson
Hautes Pyrenees
France, Sept. 19 2005