A tsunami warning has been issued for coastal British Columbia following a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck near Haida Gwaii on Saturday night, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there was the possibility of “widespread dangerous coastal flooding accompanied by powerful currents.”
The quake was centred 198 kilometres south-southwest of Prince Rupert at a depth of 10 km, the USGS said.
“A major earthquake occurred in the Haida Gwaii region (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands). It was felt across much of north-central B.C., including Haida Gwaii, Prince Rupert, Quesnel and Houston. There have been no reports of damage at this time,” Natural Resources Canada said in a statement issued Saturday night. /CBS News (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
On June 3, 2010, the Haida Gwaii Reconciliation Act officially renamed the islands Haida Gwaii as part of a reconciliation protocol between British Columbia and the Haida people (The Haida are an indigenous nation of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their main territory is the archipelago of Haida Gwaii in northern British Columbia, but many live across the water in southern Alaska./Wikipedia
Mitt emot Haida Gwaii, på fastlandet bor Carol med sin trevliga familj. Carol lärde jag känna för ungefär 35 år sedan vilket alltså slutade med en livslång vänskap. Detta förklarar mitt intresse för
tsunamivarningen. British Colombia, främst Vancouver Island, är f.ö. ett område jag besökt flertalet gånger som sjöman. Ett område som nog med sin storslagna natur tillhör de vackraste i världen. .
