Just went through an earthquake

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » 10-28-2012 07:32 PM

Raggedyann wrote:

Yep, the fur faces are my kids. I'm always saying to them "Come with mommie". I bet the neighbours think I'm a nutty old lady!

Hey I was taking my little ones shopping and out and about long before the Beverly Hills crowd so I understand the looks.

Raggedyann · Post by **Raggedyann** » 10-28-2012 07:40 PM

Kaztronic · Post by **Kaztronic** » 10-28-2012 09:13 PM

Glad you're doing alright RA.

Earthquakes scare me more than anything. No warning, nowhere to go for protection.

Hoping all is settling back to normal for you

Lore · Post by **Lore** » 10-28-2012 09:29 PM

Glad you made it through Raggedyann with nothing much more than rattled nerves.

The 5.8 aftershock was deleted:

2012-10-28 03:14:10 DELETED: (M 5.

QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS REGION 52.6 -132.2 (37ab)
Canadian Quakes

USGS ENS
12:13 AM (19 hours ago)

Event us b000df81

== EVENT DELETED NOTIFICATION ==

***This event has been deleted after review by a seismologist.***

Geographic coordinates: 52.629N, 132.243W
Magnitude: 5.8
Universal Time (UTC): 28 Oct 2012 03:14:10
Time near the Epicenter: 27 Oct 2012 20:14:10

There was a 6.3 aftershock.http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 06#summary

Raggedyann · Post by **Raggedyann** » 10-28-2012 09:57 PM

Our Province was slow on the uptake last night and this has made folks very nervous. Dio and other people I was chatting with, as well as myself, were mystified as to why we could not find out what was going on. Here is a copy of an email I wrote to our local emergency leader.

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Hi Pat,

I was very disappointed in not finding any info on our BC media directly after the quake struck. It took the operations in Van, 50 minutes after they were notified of a tsunami warning to alert the public. CBC was silent for almost an hour and so were radio stations that I checked. The West Coast and Alaska Warning Centre's website crashed within minutes due to high volume. This is crazy as the earthquake sites in the U.S. and Canada were directing everyone to go to this site for updates and directives. It was 2 hours before I could get on that site. PEP also had nothing on its site.

I hope BC has learned from this because at this point I have little faith in their organizational capabilities if another one should occur.
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You can bet your boots if Lindsay Lohan had crashed her car into something last night, the media would have notified us within seconds.

BenSlain · Post by **BenSlain** » 10-29-2012 12:45 AM

I think TMZ is reporting that Lindsay Lohan did in fact feel the earth move!

Raggedyann · Post by **Raggedyann** » 10-29-2012 01:00 AM

megman · Post by **megman** » 10-29-2012 01:29 AM

We always joke around these parts that when there is an earthquake it's just Quebec trying to separate again.

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » 10-29-2012 11:31 AM

RA just not important enough - now if we were to find out Kim K truly had buttocks implants - now that is something we all need to know.

Good for you writing letters.

Raggedyann · Post by **Raggedyann** » 10-29-2012 07:35 PM

Emergency teams analyze quake response

Days after a massive quake hit off the BC coast, provincial emergency response teams are looking at what they would do better next time.

Chris Duffy, executive director of emergency coordination, says work is underway to have more wide-spread tsunami warnings aired on television in the future.

"Hopefully we'll see some forward movement on that where we can break in almost like an Amber Alert."

There have been complaints of technological glitches, like one of the main tsunami information websites crashing, and some coastal communities not receiving a tsunami warning for nearly an hour.

http://www.cknw.com/news/vancouver/stor ... ID=1799455

Raggedyann · Post by **Raggedyann** » 10-29-2012 07:36 PM

megman wrote: We always joke around these parts that when there is an earthquake it's just Quebec trying to separate again.