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Lab 3: Planning for a Tsunami and Storm Surge

 List the healthcare and educational facilities within the Vancouver danger zone, if any, and explain how you came up with your answer.

The healthcare facilities that are within the Vancouver danger zone are:

False Creek Residence

Broadway Pentecostal Lodge

Yaletown House Society

Villa Cathay Care Home

For the educational facilities, the ones within the danger zone are:

St. Anthony of Padua

Ecole Rose Des Vents

False Creek Elementary School

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design

Henry Hudson Elementary School

In order to come to such conclusions, I was able to extract such data on ArcGIS through the Clip tool under the Analysis Toolbox. Under the ArcGIS Analysis Toolbox, I used the Clip tool under the Extract tab  in order to separate both healthcare and educational faculties that exist only within the Vancouver Danger Zone. With the tool Clip, I was able to intersect the layer Vancouver Healthcare with the Vancouver Danger layer in order to highlight healthcare facilities in danger within the danger zone. Again, the same steps were done in order to find educational facilities in danger. By repeating  the same following steps, through the intersection of the Vancouver Education layer as the input  with the Vancouver Danger layer as the output, I was able to narrow search attributes to only education facilities associated within Vancouver’s danger zone.

Vancouver Tsunami Danger Zones

Provide a one or 2 sentence discussion of any potential risk to the new site for St. Paul’s Hospital.

For the new site of Saint Paul’s Hospital, potential risks that the hospital could run into is that the site sits within the danger zone for tsunami’s to occur. With all the patients in the hospital, the hospital is susceptible and vulnerable to “ruined” by a tsunami, becoming a hazard for all the patients within the hospital.

New Hospital map


Accomplishment Statement: 

Accomplished how to use statistics in calculating areas which a tsunami may affect the City of Vancouver. With the applications and knowledge of summarizing attribute tables to find details on which healthcare facilities, education institutions etc. are affected in the tsunami.

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