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"At 9 p.m. on Jan. 26, 1700, the undersea Cascadia thrust fault ruptured along a 1,000 - kilometre length from mid-Vancouver Island to northern California in a great earthquake, producing tremendous shaking and a huge tsunami that swept across the Pacific ocean. The Cascadia fault is the boundary between two of the earth's tectonic plates: the smaller offshore Juan de Fuca plate is sliding under the much larger North American plate.
The earthquake collapsed houses of the Cowichan people on Vancouver Island and caused numerous landslides. The shaking was so violent that people could not stand and so prolonged that it made them sick. On the west coast of Vancouver Island, the tsunami destroyed the winter village of the Pachena Bay people, leaving no survivors. These events are recorded in the oral traditions of the First Nations people on Vancouver Island.
The tsunami also caused destruction along the Pacific coast of Japan. It is the accurate descriptions of the tsunami and the precise time-keeping by the Japanese that allow us to know the size and the exact time of this great earthquake."
http://www.pep.bc.ca/cascadia_1700/cascadia_1700.html
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/12/1208_031208_tsunami.html
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http://www-sci.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/osap/projects/tsunami/tsunamieventsbc_e.htm
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