Are you scared too?

[Wereman]

Scientists state they can predict earthquakes after they drilled probes and seismometers into the ground. Yet research and technology only goes a certain way. News about earthquake has been ongoing around locals in the Vancouver area, or so it seems. Was Tsunami coming our way, it's true that Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula would shield the big centers on the Pacific (like Olympia, Tacoma, Bellingham and Vancouver, from the biggest damage).

It's foreseeable that a large city like Seattle would be totally unprepared to a disaster like this and most likely dispatched Search and Rescue from California would be stuck first even entering the city.

[ravewoif]

    It is true that we are long overdue for a mega earthquake rivaling Chile's earthquake in 1960, but what do they mean by overdue and how soon is soon to scientists. Earthquakes are a vague phenomenon especially when it comes to predicting when they will happen. Try this put your hand on the wall and push against it really hard then try and slide your hand along the wall. It will move in jerks that you can't possible calculate the timing and duration of. It is pretty much the same thing with earthquakes. Ask a physicist and he will tell you that your hand will slip when you apply enough force and thats about all he can tell you. So when a seismologist tells you that it will happen soon because there is enough force building just waiting to slip he can be off by hundreds of years. This earthquake might not even happen in your grand children's generation. 

    Just to take your mind of the impending earthquake. Out in space random bursts of gamma radiation appear that we have no idea what is causing them which mean we have absolutely no way to predict them so one could appear close enough to earth that we wouldn't even know it was coming until it hit us as we can't see the burst until it hits us. Don't worry about the earthquake as there are literally hundreds of things that could kill you or destroy your life befor you finish reading this sentence.

[Crassadon]

well, a large cement block falling on you would kill you effectively instantaneously, it's also possible that it would fall on you and, perhaps, sever your legs without crushing your head, thus causing you to bleed out in considerable pain. It's also possible that you could simply become trapped. Perhaps dying slowly of blood loss, or starving over several days, as has been inferred by the stories of people recouvered from building collapses.

I'm helping~  :D

[Silvermink]

No, I'm pretty much inured to predictions of seismic doom and gloom at this point. There's nothing I can do about it, so I may as well just go on living my life as normal.

[Trapa]

I think depending on the size of the quake, i'm not sure people should hope to survive it.  Richmond and New Westminster are the only two cities in the area that will have potable drinking water and that's only if the two truck-based filtration systems they bought are A) not crushed or damaged themselves, and B) still able to get to the water source.

People who only have cell phones will be a lot more screwed than those with land lines.
People who buy bottled water service or have a water cooler at home will be in a better situation.

It will be a interesting cluster fuck should it ever happen, and I know a few cities within the provincial emergency program who have basically realized that their entire command centers and city halls are not going to survive the earthquake, and since it would cost so much money to upgrade their plan for the city is "We'll just run the city out of tents"  .. which honestly may work and may be the only cost effective plan.

[Wereman]

Running the city out of tents may well be the solution, is it in the winter with snow fall (heck, it happened in January) may add to the challenge. This scenario reminds me of Aftershock, may well happen in Vancouver (as a matter of a fact, if you look closely, several scenes where shot in Vancouver....).

I'm doubtful Richmond will be ready for it, for most part of the city was built on landfills and sandbanks. This may well become jello and partly sink into the Pacific.

We may well pass away of other causes, let's enjoy life and when the bad hits us, be prepared for it.

[Ember]

Well...

I either die or I don't.

If I die then there's no reason to fear because it can't be predicted.

If I don't then I was raised in a camping family and know how to survive and live off the land if need be.

We also don't fucking live in a third world country and our buildings are designed to withstand earthquakes.

We also live in one of the most prosperous nations in the world and our government will take care of us.

[Wereman]

Well...

I either die or I don't.

If I die then there's no reason to fear because it can't be predicted.

If I don't then I was raised in a camping family and know how to survive and live off the land if need be.

We also don't fucking live in a third world country and our buildings are designed to withstand earthquakes.

We also live in one of the most prosperous nations in the world and our government will take care of us.

I am a little doubtful on the last part. It takes the government a few days to group itself and send in the necessary assistance. For at least the first 24 to 48 hours we will be on our own. Past and past again has shown how first responder can lack efficiency when acting after a disaster, Katrina hitting New Orleans in 2005, 2010 Haiti Earthquake and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill the same year to name a few examples. When launching search and rescue setting up logistics efficiently is always a challenge.

[tokar]

what is the point of being scared of something you cannot control or have any knowledge of when it might happen.  like walking across the street - can you predict that a bus is not going to stop at a certain time and day and hit you as you cross?  can you predict if or when you will win the lottery? 
sure you can be a boy scout and be prepared and have an earthquake preparedness kit, but why be scared.  react to the problem when the problem is present.  when your home is a pile of rubble then and only then are you homeless after the earthquake.
if there is / was no earthquake then don't worry.  if an earthquake is happening do not panic, stand still (2 secs max) and focus as to where the damage is happening.  then get away from there. fast and protect your kit. and stay off of your phone.

YOU CANNOT RELY ON THE GOV'T TO HELP YOU FOR AT LEAST 72 - 96 HOURS AFTER A DISASTER.  in normal speak that would be up to 4 days so do not panic.

[Fleurette]

Just have hope.
Of course I'm scared as well, but what can we do?
Perhaps it will happen while I'm not living in Vancouver, but what if it happens the day I move there? The week after? Years after?
Who knows. All you can be is hopeful that you're in the right place in the right time.
I don't imagine I could protect myself if the city were in anarchy for a few days before government officials came to break up the chaos.
I'm just hoping that if it happens in this lifetime, I will be in a safe place surrounded by people that love me.
Just, have, hope.

[Sevrin]

I'm not really scared of earthquakes, no, I find the media usually makes a big hype about them but its never really as bad as they make it look.

I don't imagine I could protect myself if the city were in anarchy for a few days before government officials came to break up the chaos.

doesn't one of the pictures on your profile depict you with a bigass sword?

[J.R.Bear]

No, being scared of earthquakes is silly :P

[Red]

The only thing you can do to help in the event of an earthquake is be prepared, it's not something we can stop completely, but it helps to have a kit.

http://www.pep.bc.ca/hazard_preparedness/prepare_now/prepare.html

[Tef]

A 7.7? Honestly, I didn't feel a thing even though I'm in Richmond - though I believe it couldn't be stated for folks on the Island. I checked my Facebook and some of my friends in Richmond said they had also felt the earthquake.

[Drake Wingfire]

I felt absolutely nothing over here. The only warnings the island ever got were for like Tofino.. :P