Abbotsford jolted by 3.3 magnitude earthquake

[B00Mer]

Update: Abbotsford jolted by 3.3 magnitude earthquake

The Big One is coming Vancouver....

It was minor, but for those in Abbotsford who felt it, it got the heart pumping.

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake struck about seven kilometres southeast of Abbotsford at about 12:45 this morning.

Callers to the CKNW newsroom says they were jolted awake. Some say the shaking lasted for about ten to twenty seconds.

Updated July 5, 2015

The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting a slight 2.9 magnitude earthquake about seven kilometres southeast of Abbotsford.

Callers to the newsroom says they were jolted awake by a light tremor at about 12:45.

source: Update: Abbotsford jolted by 3.3 magnitude earthquake | (CKNW AM) AM980

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Also a few odd ball Earthquakes hit across Canada this week..

3.2 magnitude earthquake rattles Nominingue, Que., north of Mont Tremblant

Nova Scotia earthquakes come in waves, geologist says

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B7xr_EjbzE

 

[petros]

Jolted? 3.3? We get those almost every day in SK.

Big deal.

 

[B00Mer]

Jolted? 3.3? We get those almost every day in SK.

Big deal.

Frack those Fracking Frackers. Eh. :lol:

In Oklahoma, Fracking Companies Can Now Be Sued Over Earthquakes | ThinkProgress

 

[petros]

Potash and natural.


Eastern Ontario and Quebec and the West Coast aren't the only parts of Canada that have an earthquake risk. Research shows that while the probability is quite low, Saskatchewan and Manitoba also have some risk of experiencing a large quake, said Dr. John Adams of the Geological Survey of Canada.

Adams spoke at the Canadian Seismic Research Network's Workshop on Seismic Hazards and Microzonation in Toronto on Jan. 13.
"There are some earthquakes in the middle of Canada," he said. "We see earthquakes in Saskatchewan relatively often, maybe five times a year. We had a Magnitude-5.3 earthquake there in 1909. .

"We don't think anywhere in Canada is safe from earthquakes. We just think the probabilities are low [in central Canada]."
Adams pointed to research from Australia that analyzed "hundreds of thousands of years of fault scars across the continent of Australia."
The conclusion of that research is that earthquakes in the middle of continents could be as large as Magnitude 7.2, he said.
"That means that there is some very low probability that an earthquake of that size could occur in Manitoba or Saskatchewan. The risk is so much lower than Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa or Toronto, but it isn't zero."

To top it all off we have tornadoes, deadly thunderstorms, wild pigs, big cats, wolves, million of geese, blizzards, jibrats and sh-tloads of feral Indians.

I'm scared sh-tless!!!