The day before Christmas Eve, a cluster of earthquakes was underway about five kilometres below the seafloor, one every couple of hours
When Prince Harry went to Vancouver Island for Christmas he undoubtedly felt like he was getting away from all the rumbles of home.
The day before Christmas Eve was seismically unusual in the waters off Vancouver Island, alarmingly so to the layperson, trained to expect the worst. A cluster of earthquakes was underway about five kilometres below the seafloor, one every couple of hours. But this was not that. Citizen reports started coming in to Natural Resources Canada, nearly 40 in all, of mild shaking, but no damage, nothing even knocked off shelves.
There are several quakes here each week, but many are in the range of 2, so they get no attention, and are not even felt by anything other than the seismometers installed on the mainland and Vancouver Island, which can calculate location and intensity, with additional input from a network of seafloor devices.These latest quakes were also caused by plates sliding and slipping against each other laterally, not falling vertically as one is forced underneath another.
It will also go west, where Japan and other lands across the Pacific will have longer to flee. There is nothing else to do.
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