A previously unrecognized active fault has been discovered 10 km north of downtown Victoria, British Columbia. This newly identified fault, the XEOLXELEK-Elk Lake fault (XELF), crosses Saanich Peninsula within Greater Victoria and poses a hazard to the region's ∼400,000 inhabitants. User GeoGeoGeoGeo, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 07 Dec 2023
A previously unrecognized active fault has been discovered ~10 km north of Victoria. The newly identified fault, the XEOLXELEK-Elk Lake fault, crosses Saanich Peninsula within Greater Victoria and poses a hazard to the region's ~400,000 inhabitants. User GeoGeoGeoGeo, in the Victoria, BC subreddit, 07 Dec 2023