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The Next BIG Earthquake
At Risk: The GREAT Earthquake Threat Facing Southern British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
February 04, 2007
Sherwood Ensey

It has been 307 years since a GREAT earthquake struck the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest and southern British Columbia. The last known GREAT earthquake that struck the Cascades region is thought to have taken place on January 26, 1700, and been 9+ in magnitude.

"The earthquake shaking collapsed houses of the Cowichan people on Vancouver Island and caused numerous landslides. The shaking was so violent that people could not stand and so prolonged that it made them sick. On the west coast of Vancouver Island, the tsunami completely destroyed the winter village of the Pachena Bay people with no survivors. These events are recorded in the oral traditions of the First Nations people on Vancouver Island. The tsunami swept across the Pacific also causing destruction along the Pacific coast of Japan. It is the accurate descriptions of the tsunami and the accurate time keeping by the Japanese that allows us to confidently know the size and exact time of this great earthquake.

The earthquake also left unmistakable signatures in the geological record as the outer coastal regions subsided and drowned coastal marshlands and forests that were subsequently covered with younger sediments. The recognition of definitive signatures in the geological record tells us the January 26, 1700 event was not a unique event, but has repeated many times at irregular intervals of hundreds of years. Geological evidence indicates that 13 great earthquakes have occurred in the last 6000 years."
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