Will Vancouver Island save Vancouver from the Tsunami?

[yvr girl]

I've been hearing for years about 'the big one' (earthquake) that is going to level us. Now, we are a Tsunami target. I'm hoping the island will take the brunt. (Sorry, CanuckAmok.)

Maybe I'll move to Florida to get away from all the natural disasters.

[DinahMoeHum]

1. Florida???? Are you kidding??? You risk hurricanes there

EVERY SINGLE YEAR!!! August and September, mostly.

They had FOUR of them THIS YEAR ALONE!!, and they're STILL trying to clean up and repair the damage!!

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Every place on this planet has a risk of natural disaster of one kind or another. That's the way it is. Earth is a very active planet. There's no getting away from it.

Sheeeesh!

:eyes::eyes::eyes:

[yvr girl]

3. I did pick Florida for a reason.

Perhaps my sarcasm was not evident.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Yep, sorry, but it was not evident.

I would have stayed out of it if there was a smilie or a (sarcasm alert) in your post.

My bad.

:evilgrin:

[Wat_Tyler]

2. You're not a tsunami target.

However, global warning will soon rid us all of Richmond and Delta. At least Fantasy Garden will be no more.

[yvr girl]

6. Can we save the airport

I like to travel.

[HEyHEY]

16. great - an upside

[sam sarrha]

4. When the 'shelf' breaks off the big island of Hawii the wave could be over

300 feet high, ti will take out all the major cities of the west coast, the last one 100,000 years ago packed coral into mountian sides over 500 feet above water level in australia.

when the Island off Africa hs a long running land slide off the volcanic mountian the wave will destroy every coastal city and town miles inland along the pacific coast.. the wave will be hundreds of feet tall, florida will be inondated up to 20 miles or more .. it isnt a matter if if but when,, the slump has moved in the last decades.

worst of all is the potential for Methane hydrate to detonate along the pacific coasts, they presently have plans to mine it.

at the end of the last Ice Age when the warm water started flowing into Norway as the ice sheet melted creating the present ocean currents.. a deposit of methane hydrate detonated and threw 100's of cubic miles of dust into the atmosphere causing the ice age to return for 2000 years. NOVA has specials on these things, they might rerun them soon...

[HEyHEY]

17. A chilling sign of things to comes!

[Beer Snob-50]

5. there is always beautiful massachusetts

all we get is snow!

[yvr girl]

7. I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to the cold

I rarely have to even scrape my windows here.

[Beer Snob-50]

8. i'd come by and scrape the windows if you

build a good enough fire and make hot chocolate.

[yvr girl]

9. I can manage the hot chocolate

but fires are best left to those with fireplaces. I can gather some candles perhaps.

[Beer Snob-50]

10. candles are good!

and i can start a fire when i get inside.

[yvr girl]

13. sounds dangerous

[Beer Snob-50]

20. live life to its fullest!!

take chances.

[Goathead]

11. No, it will not

The question is not if, but when. If a large earthquake were to occur in the body of water off Vancouver, it could very well generate a large localized tsunami, it just depends on the magnitude of the seismic event and where it occurs. You probably have a tsunami warning system in place as Vancouver is on the 'Ring of Fire' and is prone to seismic and volcanic activity.

[HEyHEY]

15. I don't think the Straight of Georgia is big enough or deep enough

To get one going. It's only an 18 km gap

[yvr girl]

18. If a really big one hits will the island stop it or just slow it down

The island will get it worse than we do, for sure, but are we safe?

[HEyHEY]

19. I can't see one of those waves making it over the entire island

[Goathead]

21. This palce was only 30km from the epicenter

Locally generated tsunami:
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/earthquakes/destruct/1975Nov29/30424303_008_caption.html

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/earthquakes/destruct/1975Nov29/tsunami.html

[HEyHEY]

14. The Island was hit by a Tsunami in 1964

Port Alberni took the worst of it.