City of Vancouver Areas Under Tsunami Threat

List of the Education facilities within the Vancouver danger zone:

  • St. Anthony of Padua
  • Ecole Rose Des Vents
  • False Creek Elementary
  • Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design
  • Henry Hudson Elementary

List of the Healthcare facilities within the Vancouver danger zone:

  • Falso Creek Residence
  • Broadway Pentecostal Lodge
  • Yaletown House Society
  • Villa Cathay Care Home

How to find the upon information?

Starts with the ArcToolbox, under the Analysis Tools, expand the Overlay button then select Intersect. Then choose the existed Vancouver Education/ Healthcare layer to intersect with Vancouvermask_Danger and new layer(s) will create. Right click the layer(s) and then open the Attribute Table, you will now find the list of facilities that fall in the danger zone.

The new location for the St.Paul’s Hospital will be place on the false creek flat, which was a tidal area that has been reclaimed from sea in 1910’s.  Due to its low elevation and proximity to the water body, the area is expose to protential risk of flooding by tsunami or land liquefaction in major earthquake events.

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