What percentage of the city of Vancouver’s total area is under danger?
15.5% of the City of Vancouver’s total area is under potential danger. In order to determine this percentage several steps are required. Firstly, it is necessary to find the total area of Vancouver; one way of doing this is by adding and thus summarizing the total area of different land use in Vancouver which is equal to 131 020 600 m2. Once the total area of Vancouver has been determined, the next step is to calculate the total area of land use that is at potential danger of a tsunami. By using Geographic Information System, and specific tools in the software ArcMap, it is possible to extract the different land uses that are in danger and to summarily their total areas to find out that 2 0303 078 m2 of land use in Vancouver in at risk. Finally, the last remaining step is to calculate what percentage this represents and to find that the land use in danger represents 15.5% of Vancouver.
List the healthcare and educational facilities within the Vancouver danger zone, if any explain how you came up with your answer
By using the ArcMap Software, it is possible to overlay different layers to find specific desired information. For instance, we can use the software to find out which education and healthcare facilities are located in danger zones prone to risk to tsunamis; i.e. 1km offshore and below 15 metres. By allowing overlaying of such different layers it is thus possible to find that the following facilities are in the Vancouver danger zone:
Healthcare facilities in Vancouver danger zone:
- False Creek Residence
- Broadway Pentecostal lodge
- Coast West Community home
- Yaletown House Society
- Villa Cathay Care Home
Education facilities in Vancouver danger zone:
- St Anthony of Padua
- Ecole Rose des vents
- Heritage 3R’s School
- False Creek elementary
- Emily CARR institute of art& design (ECIAD)
- Henry Hudson Elementary
- St John’s International
- St Francis Xavier
- Institute of Indigenous government (IIG)