Terrorism, war, natural disasters, iPods: is this going to go down as the biggest loser of a decade of all time or what? Apparently Mother Nature is working on a real doozie to cap it off:
A silent tectonic event, so powerful it has shifted southern Vancouver Island out to sea, but so subtle nobody has felt a thing, is slowly unfolding on the West Coast. Scientists who are tracking the event with sensitive seismographs and earth orbiting satellites warn it could be a trigger for a massive earthquake -- some time, maybe soon. But they are quick to add that the imperceptible tremors emanating from deep beneath the surface are sending signals scientists are not yet able to comprehend fully and "the Big One" might yet be 200 years off.Hoo ray.
Update: Goodie...and what exactly were they doing so far?
Comments
Declan - September 14, 2005 1:01 PM
Interesting. I was out by Ucluelet over the Labour day weekend and on one of the trails there were a bunch of signs going into a surprising amount of detail on how the government was drilling some deep hole off-shore so they could monitor things more closely. I wonder if there's a connection.