About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Natural disasters in British Columbia, Shipwrecks in the British Columbia Interior, Shipwrecks of the British Columbia coast, 2011 T hoku earthquake and tsunami, MV Queen of the North, Mount Meager, Great Coastal Gale of 2007, Sechelt, Hanukkah Eve wind storm of 2006, West Coast Trail, 1964 Alaska earthquake, Clallam, SS Valencia, Seton Portage, British Columbia, USS Tattnall, Tonquin, 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake, Mount Royal, Tseax Cone, SS Pacific, Sullivan Mine, 1700 Cascadia earthquake, USS South Dakota, December 2008 North American snowstorms, HMCS Huron, Hope Slide, Spences Bridge, British Columbia, Beaver, Nechacco, City of Ainsworth, Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche, Quesnel, HMCS Mackenzie, HMCS Columbia, SS Eaglescliffe Hall, HMCS Chaudiere, Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21, HMCS Charlottetown, HMCS Saskatchewan, 1949 Queen Charlotte Islands earthquake, Point Ellice Bridge Disaster, 2010 Canada forest fires, Nisga'a Memorial Lava Beds Provincial Park, 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion, 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire, Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, Cheakamus River derailment, 1918 Vancouver Island earthquake, Flathead Valley avalanches, 2008, Cheekye Fan, Pandemonium creek slide. Excerpt: The 2011 T hoku earthquake, also known as the Great East Japan Earthquake, (Japanese: "Eastern Japan Great Earthquake Disaster" ) was a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of T hoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 32 km (20 mi). It was the most powerful known earthquake to have hit Japan, and one of the five most powerful earthquakes in the world overall since mode...
