Speaking of Earthquakes, what about Alberta?

[Ken07AOVette]

A few years ago I was sitting in my living room, and everything started moving, stuff on the table rattling, etc. I did not think much of it, had to be a semi rolling by like normal, but when I looked out the window there was nothing, no jets going over, no tractor in the backyard. Later that day on the news they said that earthquake 'symptoms' for lack of better terms had been reported all over Alberta.

Being so close generally speaking to the supermassive Yellowstone Caldera, I would think that we would feel more everyone once in a while.

Has anyone else ever experienced something similar, other than the earth moving of course because of a hot partner.

ibtmike

[IR_mike]

We use to experience some slight tremors up here in the early 80's when esso started useing steam injection to the north east of us.

[CaberTosser]

I recall one that stuck somewhere around 1984, though it was pretty mild; I was just approaching the back door of our house in Calgary and it just seemed to throw my equilibrium off very briefly. Until I discovered what it was I didn't know what to make of it.

[600twin]

Here in Japan we are having them all the time , nothing major mind but i have been on the 15th floor of the hotel and watched the water in the tub slop around for about 5 mins and at the rig the wotk unit you can watch all the papers hangin on the wall will start moving back and forth. It is a weird sensation to say the least. A guy just left and he is from New Zealand and he said they are totally different there its like a monster jump and drop type of thing.

[Guy on a Buffalo]

Insurance companies, like Co-operaters, claim that Alberta is still considered part of the earthquake belt. Still find that weird...

[CaberTosser]

I understand our towers in Calgary are all built to earthquake specifications, though I would probably except the Palliser Hotel from that list due to its age.

[Ryry4]

Interesting, I've never experienced anything like that here.

[walking buffalo]

We use to experience some slight tremors up here in the early 80's when esso started useing steam injection to the north east of us.

Hmmm...

Read this today, Recent Ohio Earthquakes could be caused by fracking.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/12/31/1935351/40-earthquake-strikes-in-northeast.html

Hi Hal. :sLo_BigBearHug: :lol:

Never felt an earthquake in Alberta, but I've felt many when living in BC. Weird feeling....

[hayseed]

Hmmm...

Read this today, Recent Ohio Earthquakes could be caused by fracking.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/12/31/1935351/40-earthquake-strikes-in-northeast.html

Hi Hal. :sLo_BigBearHug: :lol:

Never felt an earthquake in Alberta, but I've felt many when living in BC. Weird feeling....

Dang it.... you beat me to it.....and its true..fracmaster said so...:scared0018:

[Whipper Billy]

Earthquakes Canada Database
http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-eng.php

Selected 2009 - 2012 Alta & .5 BC - scroll to the bottom for the map

http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/stndon/NEDB-BNDS/bull-eng.php?time_start=2009%2F01%2F01+16%3A21%3A&time_end=2012%2F01%2F01+16%3A21%3A&depth_min=0&depth_max=100&mag_min=-3&mag_max=9.9&shape_type=region&radius_center_lat=50&radius_center_lon=-95&radius_radius=1000&region_north=54&region_south=48&region_east=-110&region_west=-120&eq_type_L=1&display_list=1&list_sort=mag&list_order=a&tpl_output=html&display_map=1&submited=Submit+Request


Selected 2011 BC & Alta - scroll to the bottom for the map

http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/stndon/NEDB-BNDS/bull-eng.php?time_start=2011%2F01%2F01+16%3A21%3A&time_end=2012%2F01%2F01+16%3A21%3A&depth_min=0&depth_max=100&mag_min=-3&mag_max=9.9&shape_type=region&radius_center_lat=50&radius_center_lon=-95&radius_radius=1000&region_north=54&region_south=48&region_east=-110&region_west=-130&eq_type_L=1&display_list=1&list_sort=mag&list_order=a&tpl_output=html&display_map=1&submited=Submit+Request

[greylynx]

I remember the big quake that hit Alaska.

Garden tools were moving back and forth in the garage.

Remember, North America ends at the end of the Rocky Mountain Fault.

[Redfrog]

Ain't much shaking in Bodo.:thinking-006: but when I was younger:sHa_shakeshout:

[Sundancefisher]

Earthquakes are not uncommon in Alberta. We are right up against the Rocky Mountains that are be pushed up ever year by tectonic forces.

They tend to be of the smaller variety...not due to block or slip fault types.

[Grizzly Adams]

I remember the big quake that hit Alaska.

Garden tools were moving back and forth in the garage.

Remember, North America ends at the end of the Rocky Mountain Fault.

I Recall an article about how chandeliers in a Calgary church were swinging. :lol: If that Yellowstone Caldera were to blow again, we wouldn't be here to worry about it.

Grizz

[Coulee]

CaberTosser is right, but just has the the date slightly off. Calgary experienced an earthquake in September, 1983. When the quake (a mild one) hit, I was standing on the Chinook C-Train platform and didn't feel a thing. My father, who was three blocks away at his office, did. A friend of mine was in a hotel room in White Horse when the Alaska quake hit. Knocked him right off his feet.

[albertadeer]

North of GP nestled in the saddle hills there are small dormant volcanoes. A few years ago a small quake hit north of Valhalla. We watched a hanging plant sway, we just stared at it in confusion tell some one said it was a earthquake.

The volcanoes have been studied and the area is known for seismic activity.

We are screwed....:snapoutofit:

[BGSH]

Alaska has about 2 earthquakes a day, California has about 1 a day, Montana has been having a few as of late, check out this link then click the following link on the page and you can watch earthquakes live as they happen

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/

[Sundancefisher]

"Historically, Alberta has been a seismically quiet part of North America. The federal government began serious monitoring of Alberta seismic activity in the mid-1960s. Prior to that, less than two dozen earthquakes had been recorded. From 1985 to 2010, Earthquakes Canada recorded 471 earthquakes in Alberta. The vast majority of these are natural earthquakes that occurred in a southeast trend along the Rocky Mountain Foothills."

http://www.ags.gov.ab.ca/geohazards/earthquakes.html