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Apr 8, 2020

Resilience through preparedness: remembering the 1964 ‘Good Friday’ tsunami

56 years ago, the ‘Good Friday’ earthquake rocked the Gulf of Alaska, causing a major tsunami to roll across the Pacific Ring of Fire on the evening of 27 March 1964. Few in Tofino were aware of the magnitude 9.2 earthquake or the alerts being sent by the US tsunami warning centre. Three and a half hours after the shaking, a series of tsunami waves swept over beaches and strong currents scoured the Pacific northwest coastline (Figure 1). Being early springtime and late at night in a sparsely populated Tofino, the area suffered no fatalities or injuries and only minor damage was reported. The event was a wake-up call for a risk that was not well understood nor well prepared for.

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tsunami | earthquake | Tofino | port alberni | alaska

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A first anniversary for British Columbia’s community observatories

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Coastal communities are facing a variety of rapid environmental changes. Real-time data from cabled observatories can be used by community members to make informed decisions about their coastal and marine resources.

In March 2016, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) continued to push the innovation envelope by deploying three community observatories along the British Columbia coast: in Campbell River, Kitamaat Village, and Prince Rupert (Figure 1). After a year in operation, this first anniversary review celebrates the successes, challenges, and future for ONC’s community observatories.

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community | observatory | community observatories | Science | outreach | Kitamaat | Kitamaat Village | Prince Rupert | port alberni | Campbell River | indigenous | ways of knowing | weather stations

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Jun 28, 2016

A Fly-on-the-Wall: Notes from Port Alberni's Exercise Coastal Response

As Canada’s west coast braces for a much-anticipated major earthquake, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is working with partners to develop an earthquake early warning system. ONC has also been collaborating with other research agencies to develop preliminary tsunami wave propagation models that provide time of arrival, wave height, and inundation maps. These models—together with ONC’s observatories, sensors, and the new warning system under development—are crucial tools for tsunami preparedness.

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Port Alberni

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earthquake early warning | coastal response | port alberni | digital elevation modelling

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Jun 10, 2016

Tsunami Models Used for Preparedness Exercise in Port Alberni

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Ocean Networks Canada’s preliminary tsunami models for Barkley Sound and the City of Port Alberni were integrated into Emergency Management BC’s first ever full-scale earthquake and tsunami response exercise: Exercise Coastal Response in Port Alberni June 7 - 10.

Ocean Networks Canada in collaboration with University of Rhode Island has been developing new tsunami wave models for the area of Barkley Sound and the City of Port Alberni. New fault rupture models have been developed by Natural Resources Canada and University of Victoria personnel. Digital elevation models that reflect the morphology of these two areas have been developed in collaboration with NOAA-NCEI, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, GeoBC and the Alberni-Clayoquot...

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tsunami | emergency | port alberni | modeling | wave models | emergency management BC | exercise | coastal response | #coastalresponse

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Feb 3, 2016

Coming to Nuu-chah-nulth Territory: exciting developments in ocean monitoring

By Maia Hoeberechts, Associate Director, User Services

It’s always a pleasure to visit Port Alberni, an important partner for Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) and the home of the NEPTUNE observatory shore station. Recently, I travelled with our Indigenous outreach team—Jessica Brown and Mercedes Mclean—to this Vancouver Island community and Nuu-chah-nulth Territory, to introduce the latest proposed community observatory site in ONC’s Smart Ocean™ Systems project.

Building on the successful technology and data delivery of the NEPTUNE and VENUS observatories, ONC has developed a smaller, coastal observing system suitable for near-shore installations. The observatory proposed for Alberni...

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community observatory | port alberni | Nuu-chah-nulth | Smart Ocean™ Systems

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Jul 20, 2009

NEPTUNE Canada contributes to “permanent” Tsunami Centre in Port Alberni

Ken Hutcheson, president of the Port Alberni Maritime Heritage Society, and NEPTUNE Canada project coordinator Leslie Elliott present new tsunami exhibits at the Hutcheson Gallery, 17 Jul 09.

On Friday, July 17, 2009 NEPTUNE Canada, with support from Ocean Networks Canada, contributed to a permanent Tsunami Centre in the Hutcheson Gallery at 2750 Harbour Road, Port Alberni, BC....

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port alberni | tsunami | shore station | Collaboration

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