Hundreds gathered on Mt Tolmie after #tsunami warning head home after @environmentca lifts alert #yyj pic.twitter.com/cTEw0bDUn1 — @NicoleCrescenziOne young man was busy calling his mother to let him know he was safe. She only learned of the tsunami alert when she woke at 4:30, after the alert was cancelled. #tsunami #beprepared pic.twitter.com/089ZSHWQCL — @Josie_OsborneMany Vancouver Island residents first learned from friends and relatives as far away as Antigua and England that a 7.9-magnitude earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska had triggered a tsunami alert for the west coast of British Columbia. Tanya Patterson, the City of Victoria's emergency program coordinator, said the Vic-Alert system is one area for improvement in the city's emergency response. The tsunami alerts were specifically targeted to subscribers in neighbourhoods with coastal exposure.

Source: CBC News January 23, 2018 22:41 UTC