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Vancouver islander here - tbh, Vancouver Island is mostly okay too. If you look at the map, you'll see that a huge peninsula shelters the most populous area (Victoria) from tsunami. Most of the smaller towns are on the inside passage. The only places that are in real danger are Tofino, Ucluelet, Port Renfrew, and several small native settlements. It's a shame because those are some of my favorite places on earth, but 90% of Vancouver Island doesn't live there.

(I did the research on this last year after I had a nightmare about tsunamis.)

Would the island protect it or help to funnel all the water up the bay?

Protect it. I live on the shores of English Bay and the water typically barely ripples, waves are rare and more than that is practically unheard of. Compare this to the Pacific Ocean storms out on the open.

That's not what a tsunami is though. A tsunami is not a wave in the sense you allude to, it is the whole water level rising in unison. A breakwater does not protect you from a tsunami.

Nice call

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