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NRCan earthquake seismologist + University of Victoria Adjunct Professor. Works with engineers, emergency managers, and communities to help minimize the impact of #earthquakes. Also, posts on Nature and Gardening. 🌱 🧪⚒️ 🏞 🇨🇦 My thoughts/posts.
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Looking for a change from #earthquake posts? How about this? Despite 2 weeks of wintery weather, with some below-freezing temperatures and snow (long gone now), there are 12 #lemons ready to pick now on my #VancouverIsland 🇨🇦 backyard tree. Cannot wait until this produces 100+ lemons each year! 🌱🍋🇨🇦

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Did you know that in southwestern #BritishColumbia, tectonic plates are moving at about the same speed your fingernails grow and that we get 3 types of #earthquakes here? Every day, small earthquakes are recorded (1000+/year). For details, see: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pu... ⚒️🧪

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Another little (M~2) earthquake near #Victoria last night at 7:37 p.m. PT. Mild shaking was felt on southern Vancouver Island (~30 reports so far). Please report shaking here: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/dyfi-lavr/fo...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Thanks, Liz. Too many earthquakes! Here is the correct link for today's M5.1 60 km NW of Vancouver: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2025/...

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That was a shallow M5.1 earthquake, 24 km NNE of Sechelt and 60 km NW of Vancouver at 1:26 p.m. PT. Shaking was felt by 1000's across southwest British Columbia. Details/report shaking: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2025/... ⚒️🧪

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

#Earthquake felt across southwest British Columbia. Looks like ~M5 Sunshine Coast north west of #Vancouver. Stay tuned...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Do you live in #Canada's most earthquake-prone region, #HaidaGwaii? There have been 1,345 earthquakes during the past year! There will be a series of presentations on earthquake hazard, monitoring, preparedness and earthquake early warning next week, see www.haidagwaiiobserver.com/news/experts... ⚒️🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Did you feel shaking in NW #Alberta or NE British Columbia at 8:41 a.m. MT today? That was a M5.2 (Mw4.6) #earthquake located 63 km NE of Grande Cache, AB. Mild shaking was felt as far away as Edmonton (345 km distant). Details and report shaking: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2025/... ⚒️🧪

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If you live in #Vancouver 🇨🇦 (or are visiting the city), check out the Museum of Anthropology at #UBC - it is absolutely amazing! So much to see, so much to learn! Thank you @moaubc.bsky.social moa.ubc.ca I was looking for the "earthquake mask" but couldn't find it. So many masks! I will be back!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Flag Day, #Canada! Always so proud to see this flag flying across Canada, on backpacks around the world, and even in space. It represents many things - especially our people, who are: #kind, generous, trustworthy, dependable, compassionate, #strong and free. 🇨🇦 www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

If you felt shaking at 10 p.m. PT last night on/near southern #VancouverIsland, please tell us here: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/dyfi-lavr/fo... These reports help us to better understand past and future earthquakes, and how local soil conditions alter ground shaking. Thanks in advance! ⚒️🧪

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Did you feel shaking at 10 p.m. PT on southern Vancouver Island? That was a M3.8 #earthquake ~18 km SSE of Victoria and ~40 km beneath the surface. Shaking was felt across southern Vancouver Island and northwest #Washington. Details +report shaking: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2025/...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Great!! Thank you.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Looking for the latest information on the #Santorini earthquake swarm? #Greece See the Hellenic Seismic Network (last 24 hours of earthquakes): bbnet.gein.noa.gr/HL/seismicit... USGS (larger #earthquakes only): earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... and @lastquake.bsky.social ⚒️🧪

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments