City of Vancouver Risk Assessment for Tsunami

Around 11.35% of the City of Vancouver’s total area is in danger. Because the total area in Vancouver in danger is 14875501.704403 m2

  • Right click on the Vancouver_Danger layer, and click on the open attribute table>>find the area column>>right click on it and select statistic>>you would see the number of sum of area

The total area of Vancouver is 131033339.950334m2

  • Similarly, open the attribute table of Vancouvermask, and there’s only one data for area, and that’s the total area.

Therefore the percentage of affected area in Vancouver will be 14875501.704403/131033339.950334*100%≈11.35%.

City of Vancouver Risk Assessment for Tsunami

 

The two tables below are the lists of facilities that constitute the layer of healthcare and educational facilities within City of Vancouver danger zone.

Vancouver healthcare facilitiesVancouver educational facilitiesSteps:

o Under the Selection menu options, choose Select By Location

o In the Selection method, choose select features from

o In the Target layer(s): check Vancouver_health & Vancouver_education

o In the Source layer: choose Vancouver_Danger

o In the Spatial selection method for target layer feature(s) choose Intersect the source layer feature

o OK

o Check Vancouver_health & Vancouver_education under TOC, so that we can see the highlights of those selected facilities.

o Open the attribute table of Vancouver_health & Vancouver_education, at the bottom, it says the number have been selected.

o Next to the number, there’s a bottom called “Show selected records”, click on it. And we can see all those list of selected data.

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