People living on the west coast of Vancouver Island would have about twenty minutes before a tsunami hit, if there were a magnitude 9.0 quake in the Cascadia Subduction zone, researchers found.
Waves would be between one and seven metres in Esperanza Inlet and Nootka Sound after such an event, with the maximum wave amplitude in Tahsis, B.C. reaching three to four metres.
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