British Columbia observed some wild natural events this year.
British Columbia is a land of extremes — known for its towering mountains, lush temperature rainforests and rocky coastlines, it also boasts Canada’s only desert.
“Only a few rogue waves in high sea states have been observed directly, and nothing of this magnitude,” said University of Victoria researcher Johannes Gemmrich. When all that rock slammed into the mountain lake below, it triggered a tremor and sent up a 100-metre wall of water into the air. How climate change warped B.C.'s weather during a record fall drought On B.C.’s south coast, a sunny September might be welcomed as an extended summer, but a dry October? Rainforest dwellers will know that’s nearly unheard of.
By the second week of December, some rain had fallen but not nearly enough to close the precipitation deficit. At BC Hydro’s dam in the Campbell River watershed, fall rainfall totals had dropped to their lowest levels on record, while the amount of water flowing into the reservoir dropped below a third of normal levels, the lowest in more than half a century. .
In the coming weeks, seismographs would pick up two more earthquakes — all nearly the exact same location and depth of a hydraulic fracking operation. One 2017 study that reviewed 730 anthropogenic projects thought to have induced earthquakes found mining was the most common seismic trigger, often due to collapsed material setting off shaking.
Also known as fracking, the extraction technique blasts pressurized liquid underground to fracture bedrock formations laced with hydrocarbons. Particles like sand hold open the cracks, allowing natural gas and petroleum to pass through to the surface where it can be collected, processed and burned. Other scientists at the meeting described a “magma hammer” slamming molten rock into the base of the underwater mountain — each with the force of a billion tonnes.
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