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The island does subside in these earthquakes.

Reading up now, it looks like it is 1-2 meters, mostly on the west coast of the island. But my memory of the early research when I still lived there in the early 1990s was that it was about a 3 meter drop. Between how low much of Victoria is, widespread poorly build older houses, and lots of housing built on unstable landfill in places like James Bay, my belief was that it was going to be pretty devastating to a lot of parts that I knew.

However recent articles like https://www.mdpi.com/2624-795X/4/3/13 suggest a much milder risk than I had thought.




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