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That 6.6-magnitude earthquake did nothing to diminish the chances of the 'Big One' hitting B.C.: Seismologist
VICTORIA — The magnitude-6.6 earthquake that struck off the west coast of Vancouver Island on Wednesday night did nothing to release pressure off the Big One, according to seismologist John Cassidy.

“It was on a different fault,” said Cassidy, who works with Earthquakes Canada.
The quake — which the U.S. Geographical Survey initially said measured 6.7 — did not release any energy being stored in the Cascadia subduction zone, from California to the west coast of Vancouver Island, Cassidy said.

“It’s completely locked,” he said.

That means pressure for the Big One — a magnitude-9.0 megathrust earthquake — is building. Cassidy said there’s about a 30-per-cent chance it could happen in the next 50 years.


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