EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.

Subject: RE: EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 08:54 PM

Thanks Don for such a detailed report ... the hair on my neck has risen again! I too, am so glad that everything is ok with our American Mudcousins! LL=Barb

Subject: RE: EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 11:26 PM

So many 'Catters and all are well. Yeah, I guess we thought of you a bit.......................now and again............sorta'....................aw crap, we love you all!!! Gaws, I hate to get gushy....................(:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 12:58 AM

Thanks, Don, sure glad you are okay and that was very interesting; something I hoep to never experience>;-)

blt, really good to hear from you, too! Whew! Glad everyone seems to be okay.

Skarpi, I will be giving thanks for your and your family's safety and hope that KATLA remains quiet!

luvya'll...kat

Subject: RE: EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.
From: roopoo
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 02:11 AM

Saw it on TV last night. It's a miracle no-one's been killed as the damage looks quite substantial. Am I right that the last one was an aftershock???

Just so glad that you all seem to be ok over there.

Andrea

Subject: RE: EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.
From: Monashee
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 04:57 AM

We could feel the shaking all the way across the prov. in the Kootenays! The Cascades absorbed a lot of the shockwave. Thank goodness it wasnt as bad as it could have been ;) Slán~

Subject: RE: EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 03:36 PM

Mouldy, looking at the reports on TV and seeing the number of parked cars that were flogged into junk by falling bricks, it's miraculous that no one walking along the sidewalks was killed. From what I last heard, there was something like twenty-nine injuries reported in Seattle, three of them serious, and one person died of a heart attack (although they are now saying that the earthquake may have had nothing to do with that). Over a hundred injuries state-wide, but I'm not sure of the exact number or how serious they were. None of the reports I heard described the nature of the injuries -- I presume they were mostly bumps and bruises. But other than the aforementioned heart attack, no deaths that I've heard of.

The geologist said early on that with a deep subduction earthquake, there usually aren't any aftershocks, but this on surprised them, I think. The following is from an ABC news report:

"On Thursday, two aftershocks shook Olympia and Tacoma — a 3.4-magnitude quake at 1:10 a.m. PT, and a 2.7-magnitude rumble at 6:23 a.m. PT, both near the location of the original quake."

I was awake at 1:10 a.m., but I didn't feel it. One person telephone KUOW-FM (the U. of W. radio station) and said that he was just drifting off to sleep and it woke him up. During the one at 6:23 a.m., we were sound asleep.

I'd say that considering the severity of the quake, all in all, we were pretty lucky!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.
From: Margo
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 05:14 PM

I was in my kitchen. First I heard the house creaking before I felt anything. It was a gentle rolling, and nothing fell over in the house. But I was "shook up" (pun intended). I had a queezy feeling in my stomach and that very alert sense when danger is present. I think the scariest thing is just plain not knowing if it is going to get worse. If I had known it would be as "gentle" as it was, I wouln't have been afraid.

Last year my husband added earthquake insurance to our homeowner's policy. Not a bad idea. But I think they have a moratorium on adding it for a certain period of time following an earthquake....

Margo, in Vancouver USA (right next to Portland, Oregon)

Subject: RE: EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.
From: Deckman
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 05:39 PM

Hey Don ... let's talk about what's REALLY important! Did any of your guitars go out of tune? CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.
From: Amergin
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 06:09 PM

Monashee, as usual you Canadians got the spelling wrong...it is Kootenai...

Subject: RE: EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Mar 01 - 08:21 PM

I'm afraid there are those who might claim they were never in tune. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: EARTHQUAKE IN B.C.
From: Monashee
Date: 03 Mar 01 - 03:49 AM

Amergin...you say tomatoe I say tomartoe (*o*) Ktunaxa