Waiting for confirmation. Hmmmmmmmm.

AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA ???? hmmmm and for those that don’t use Social Media??? ohh yeahhhh forgot they’ll come knocking on doors…….

It is simple people.

1. If the earthquake is large enough to cause a possible tsunami and you live on the coast and it is close enough that you feel it, head to higher ground in your area. Before that, make sure that you know where that is in your community. In Tofino, for instance, most of the town is about 20 metres above sea level which I believe is plenty high enough. it is the beach area foks that have to be more aware.

By the time you will get a warning, unless there are sirens in place, it can be too late.

2. If the earthquakes is some distance away, and waves propogate towards the west coast, then there will be considerable time such as 30 minutes, an hour .. two and three hours … totally dependant on the distance the tsunami wave(s) have to travel.

That will provide reasonable time for the warning centre to take 10 minutes to decide on what sort of message to send out (it did take them something like 8 minutes) and get the right message to the coastal communities in time for evacuation if deemed necessary.

my grandma doesnt have twitter? she is not constantly connected to social media? how does this work for these people

That’s the problem. The world has changed and there is no easy way to communicate to a population in an emergency situation.

So what happened to the old BC Civil Defense notification system, similar to the US Emergency Broadcast System or “EBS” ? Why is it not in operation? This system integrated broadcasters ( radio stations both A.M. and FM as well as T.V. stations) so that one call did the job of a bunch of e-mails that may not work due to downed network lines or over loaded networks.

Twitter? Seriously I think twitter is great for clowning around on but is in no way a serious means of emergency notification. What happened to Prov. Net. or did that get sold off too? I think the Justice Minister need to pull her head out of her laptop and start thinking like someone in charge. Who the heck is running the P.E.P. these days, an elected official or someone who knows emergency management.

Our system needs to be fixed, clearly this kind of response from the one who’s pretending to be in charge is shier stupidity. I think we need to call for someone else who knows what there doing to look into this matter in a more logical manner. She needs to be sent to a ministry with no sharp edges and everything wrapped in bubble wrap, she is going to hurt someone where she is at now.

The thing about sending the messages out over t.v. and radio stations is that the audience for those things is dwindling. In my household we mostly watch shows we have recorded on our PVR, or watch online if we missed recording the show. This way, we aren’t bothered by commercials, and can watch on our schedule, not the predetermined t.v. schedule. We listen to mainly satellite radio. Neither of those methods of informing would reach us.
However, if they added notifications over social media, we will probably get the message. That’s how I found out about the earthquake in B.C..
My grandmother is all over Facebook. She’d get the message, apparently. Perhaps she’d be willing to go inform your Grandma. ;)
The system needs to keep up with changing times, and this seems to be a reasonable way to do it, as long as it is in addition to the t.v. and radio notifications.

News: “The thing about sending the messages out over t.v. and radio stations is that the audience for those things is dwindling. In my household we mostly watch shows we have recorded on our PVR, or watch online if we missed recording the show.”

Bang on. Gone are the days where people adjusted their lives around the TV schedule.