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And some folks will still find a way to blame George W. for it.

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I'll wait to see how he manages the devastation in Seattle. (It's the nearest big US city to BC.)

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Probably better than cities in my state. As far as I know your Congressmen don't constantly dump in George's picnic or make a point of insulting his girlfriend, Condie, like mine do.

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In your rush to call everyone "entrenched" or closed-minded or "limited" you fail to note that the "limit" here has a very natural boundary: that point at which the evidence stops. - JayUtah

Science fiction was never meant to be an educational tool. - Editor Amazing Tales

Our state's the same colour as yours, if that's what you mean.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Yeah, but you don't have the Three Witchs like I do. (Danger! Danger Will Robinson! Politics approaching!) Thats all I have to say about that here.

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In your rush to call everyone "entrenched" or closed-minded or "limited" you fail to note that the "limit" here has a very natural boundary: that point at which the evidence stops. - JayUtah

Science fiction was never meant to be an educational tool. - Editor Amazing Tales

Sounds like you are calling certain politicians names...in other words, you are making a political comment which is not allowed on this board.

Is there some rule that I am unaware of which states that it's alright to make politicial comments as long as I immediately say "I have nothing more to say"?

Come on Don...you know how improper that is...sheesh.

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Back to the topic:

I don't remember a sizeable earthquake in British Columbia. Was there any seismic activity last week? Is the prediction still on?

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Hum,
there was nothing last week, but its going to happen....

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The whole region is due for some pretty impressive seismic upheaval. It's a fact I lived with in my LA childhood, and it's one I'm living with here.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Well being the skeptic that I am, when I saw the "pay to read more" nonsense on that site I knew that had to be like one of those, "pay us for the free stuff the government gives out but we aren't telling you that part".

The USGS and the Pacific Geoscience Center would hardly be publishing a copyrighted pay per view earthquake report. And they indeed aren't.

It's fascinating stuff. I've been reading about the monitoring around here for years and this is typical but still intriguing stuff.

SCIENTISTS MONITOR A PREDICTED EPISODE OF DEEP FAULT SLIP DEEP BENEATH VANCOUVER ISLAND AND PUGET SOUNDFeb 1,07 Further reading

I imagine it will be like Mt St Helens. Not having monitored the slip so closely before we won't realize how obviously ominous 10 feet of ground swell per day is until the blast big slip.

"The catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, was preceded by 2 months of intense activity that included more than 10,000 earthquakes, hundreds of small phreatic (steam-blast) explosions, and the outward growth of the volcano's entire north flank by more than 80 meters."

You kind of think with that much ground swell they wouldn't have had a person stay on the top for more than the brief time it took to take necessary measurements. But they hadn't monitored an explosive volcano so closely before.

I liken the ground movement around here to a sort of breathing like movement. The Olympic Peninsula will bulge upwards, slowly slip and sink back down in 18 month cycles. All the while the upper sliding puts more and more tension on the locked portion deeper down. I just hope when the big one is close, something will be different enough we get some warning.

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Sizeable is a typical mag 5 which occur around Vancouver Island quite often. If the Geoscience Centre was predicting anything greater than that, you wouldn't be seeing it on a pay per view web news site. It would be in the headlines. But actually, I think they weren't talking about a sudden quake. They were talking about the regular slow quakes which have been monitored and regularly occurring now for years.

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Hum,

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