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This week in history: 9.0 magnitude quake struck under what is now called Vancouver Island

According to First Nations elders, the 9.0-magnitude quake in 1700 CE kick-started a tsunami
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(Twitter/Ateachersaurus) The Pachena Bay shoreline in 2013. (Twitter/Ateachersaurus)

This week B次元官网网址 hundreds of years ago B次元官网网址 a colossal earthquake struck the central west coast of what is now known as Vancouver Island.

According to First Nations elders, the 9.0-magnitude quake in 1700 CE kick-started a tsunami that devastated an entire village, wiping out the 5,000 residents who lived in Anacla.

B次元官网网址淲e are able to use our history to learn from the past and prepare for future tsunamis,B次元官网网址 Robb Johnson, member of the Huu-ay-aht peoples, told Prepared BC.

In 1990, the community decided to relocate new housing to above sea level, on hills across the Pachena River B次元官网网址 to prevent a similar event.

Rebuilding includes addition of a general store, gas station and the development of the Pachena Bay Campground.

To this day, the tale of what happened to Anacla is handed down to younger Indigenous generations through oral history.



sarah.grochowski@bpdigital.ca

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