A province wide exercise in earthquake preparation is set for mid morning today, as residents across the province take part in the Great British Columbia Shake Out, part of a world wide program of earthquake awareness.
For those taking part in the exercise this morning at 10:18, the instructions are fairly simple: Drop, Cover, Hold On, those earthquake awareness notes make for the three key elements for those that may find themselves in the midst of a seismic situation in the province.
Heading into this morning's Shake Out exercise 4,580 participants have registered in the North Cosat Regional District to take part, the majority of them students at schools across the North Coast.
Province wide, over 870,000 residents of BC will be taking part in today's Shake Out.
Learn more here about how to register prior to the mid morning exercise.
For those hosting their own Shake Out some resource materials can be found here, to make sure that the awareness campaign reaches its fullest potential today.
North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice, who is also the province's Parliamentary Secretary for Emergency Planning outlined some of the scope of the Shake Out from the Legislature.
While the seismic plates have been fairly stable along the North Coast over the last few years, we do get occasional reminders of the potential for danger, one of the most recent ones coming at the start of the year with a 7.9 magnitude quake off of Kodiak, Alaska which at one point had the region under a tsunami alert.
In April, the City of Prince Rupert outlined the elements of new information services and the City's Emergency Notification Program, which directed residents to sign up for the mobile app program that will alert them to important information in the event of a serious incident in the city.
Find out more about the notification system here.
Follow today's progress of the Great BC Shakeout through twitter today.
You can review some of the temblors of record over the course of the year through our archive page.
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