Experts Warn Of Major Quake In Western Canada

SHAKE AND BLOW

The Juan de Fuca plate boundary.

by Staff Writers
Vancouver (AFP) Feb 03, 2007
Seismologists warned that a "catastrophic" earthquake could strike the southwestern coast of British Columbia soon, Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reported Saturday. The experts noted rumblings from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, along Vancouver Island, which could foretell a giant quake. But they said the probability of a quake was still low.

"Everyone drives their car every day, and the probability of getting in a car accident is small" although it rises during rush hour, Garry Rogers, a seismologist at the Pacific Geoscience Centre on Vancouver Island, told the Globe and Mail.

"Well, Vancouver Island is now driving in rush hour," he said.

The newspaper said the activity, known to scientists as episodic tremor and slip, emanates from the crush of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate beneath the North American Plate, which is Canada's shoreline.

The Juan de Fuca plate runs from Vancouver Island on Canada's West Coast south to Northern California in the United States.

Source: Agence France-Presse

Related Links
When the Earth Quakes

SHAKE AND BLOW

340,000 Flee Deadly Floods In Indonesian Capital Jakarta

Jakarta (AFP) Feb 04, 2007
Rescuers and volunteers on Sunday struggled to help nearly 340,000 Indonesians left homeless by devastating floods, triggered by heavy rains in and around Jakarta, which have killed 20 people. With more rain forecast, authorities put the capital on high alert and police deployed 12,600 extra personnel equipped with helicopters, inflatable boats and rafts to assist with evacuation efforts across the city.

DISASTER MANAGEMENT Warming To Worsen Droughts, Floods, Storms This Century Row Stalls New Gas Pipe Near Indonesian Mud Volcano New Orleans Coroner Finds No Sign Of Homicide In Katrina Mercy Killing Case Floods! Fire! SERVIR	CLIMATE SCIENCE Australia Says UN Climate Report Nothing New Global Warming Report Sparks Calls For Global Action US Praises UN Climate Report While Hailing America's Contribution Satellite Data Vital To UN Climate Findings
EARTH OBSERVATION First Thai Observation Satellite To Be Orbited In October Space Technology Can Help Ailing Agri Sector: Kasturirangan Russia's Putin, India Call For 'Weapons Free' Space New Sensor To Be A Boon To Astronomers	ENERGY TECH BP Gives Green Fuel Research 500 Mln Dlrs Top Multinationals Pledge To Cut Carbon Pollution Its Lights Out For Edison In California Self-Imposed Tax For Guilt-Ridden Polluters
EPIDEMICS EU Confirms Virulent H5N1 Bird Flu Found At British Poultry Farm Study Uncovers A Lethal Secret Of 1918 Influenza Virus Scientists Reveal A Virus' Secret Weapon World's Response To Children With Aids 'Tragically Insufficient'	FLORA AND FAUNA Investigating The Invisible Life In Our Environment Return Of Wolves To Britain Would Be Howling Success Storage Of Greenhouse Gasses In Siberian Peat Moor Huddling And A Drop In Metabolism Allow Penguins To Survive The South Pole Cold
FROTH AND BUBBLE Hong Kong Smog Hits Danger Levels NASA Probes Sources Of The Tiniest Pollutants Kathmandu Today Little More Than A Garbage Dump And Open Sewer Record Fine For China Factory Over Infamous Songhua Spill	ABOUT US Stenting Improves Thinking Global Warming Could Lead To Millions Of Climate Refugees Mechanism Of Hallucinogens Effects Discovered Genes And Job Discrimination

The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2006 - SpaceDaily.AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA PortalReports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additionalcopyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any Web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy Statement