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[fisherforever]

WOW!!! I'm only about 15 to 18 K from the epicenter measured at 5.1. I thought there was a huge bomb going off, very large bang, house shaking. Had stuff falling off shelves, tipping over in the fridge. Alarm went off on my phone very quick so just grabbed my bug out bag hopped into the car and headed for high ground since i'm only 1/4 mile from the ocean.

[SuperBobby]

Edit: They changed the depth to 10km. 1km deep would have been extremely rare for any earthquake.

[Dave]

Apparently the earthquake was only 1 km deep which is extremely shallow.
Which probably explains why it felt more like a bomb then a strengthening roll.

Stay safe Gord!

[RalphH]

here is an interesting website on recent earthquakes. Practically a daily occurence in our neck of the woods. Some listed as depth of 0 km... I wonder if those were landslides or large avalanches?

https://earthquaketrack.com/r/british-columbia-canada/recent

[clarki]

WOW!!! I'm only about 15 to 18 K from the epicenter measured at 5.1. I thought there was a huge bomb going off, very large bang, house shaking. Had stuff falling off shelves, tipping over in the fridge. Alarm went off on my phone very quick so just grabbed my bug out bag hopped into the car and headed for high ground since i'm only 1/4 mile from the ocean.

Wow…. And that large bang you describe is interesting

[RalphH]

Wow…. And that large bang you describe is interesting

experienced the same myself though a smaller quake (around 4). It was very close though.

[iblly]

I was at work running light tug back from Howe Sound to the river. We were between Worlcombe island and Bowen island. Gibsons basically. The tug suddenly had the weirdest shudder. Then another. My captain and I looked at each other and said what the hell was that !? We slowed thinking we had run something over. Then the alerts came over our phones and the text messages from my family in Richmond started coming in. I think we actually felt that earthquake on the water. 40 years on the water, 25 years on that same tug and I have never felt the boat shudder like that. Strange feeling.

[pwn50m3 f15h3r]

I live around 15km away from the magnitude 4.1 earthquake that hit near Victoria last September. It was 4 am but I recall waking up right before the shaking started. I was awake during the earthquake that hit Tsawwassen a week later and I could hear the entire neighbourhood rumbling before I felt the shaking. I’m guessing a similar noise woke me up for the 4am earthquake.

Yesterday’s earthquake was the third that I’ve felt in the past 6 months and they certainly don’t get less frightening.

[clarki]

I was at work running light tug back from Howe Sound to the river. We were between Worlcombe island and Bowen island. Gibsons basically. The tug suddenly had the weirdest shudder. Then another. My captain and I looked at each other and said what the hell was that !? We slowed thinking we had run something over. Then the alerts came over our phones and the text messages from my family in Richmond started coming in. I think we actually felt that earthquake on the water. 40 years on the water, 25 years on that same tug and I have never felt the boat shudder like that. Strange feeling.

Super cool, iblly!

[RalphH]

I was at work running light tug back from Howe Sound to the river. We were between Worlcombe island and Bowen island. Gibsons basically. The tug suddenly had the weirdest shudder. Then another. My captain and I looked at each other and said what the hell was that !? We slowed thinking we had run something over. Then the alerts came over our phones and the text messages from my family in Richmond started coming in. I think we actually felt that earthquake on the water. 40 years on the water, 25 years on that same tug and I have never felt the boat shudder like that. Strange feeling.

I guess that since some people felt the Sechelt tremor in the Gulf Islands the shock waves would travel along the ocean floor and possibly move into the water as well. Earthquake shock wave are similar to sound waves and sound waves propagate through water far more efficiently than air. Something I never thought of and have never heard mention even during the geology & geography courses I took in University.

[iblly]

Ya I have no other explanation for that feeling other than the earthquake. It’s like the ocean shuddered.