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BRENT RICHTER
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The person in charge of overseeing the local response to disasters on the North Shore was in the optometrist’s chair at 1:26 p.m., Friday when the earth began to shake.
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck about a kilometre below the surface northeast of Sechelt. “My phone became very active, and I knew that I needed to respond to a few things, so I just politely ended the eye appointment, and we stood up the North Shore response structure,” said Emily Dicken, North Shore Emergency Management director. As the shaking was underway, Alertable – the smartphone app that NSEM uses for public safety notifications – “did its job and activated right away,” Dicken said. About two minutes later, inside North Shore Emergency Management’s office at the North Vancouver RCMP detachment, data was coming in from a series of seismic sensors placed on public buildings confirming that a quake had indeed happened but that the shaking likely wasn’t violent enough to have damaged infrastructure. The next order of businesses was a conference call with Continued on A19
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