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Vancouver earthquake scenario predicts up to 10,000 casualties
CBCnews   03 September 2015   Canada   Vancouver  
Based on the province's worst-case scenario, a shallow 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Vancouver could cause up to 10,000 deaths and destroy 12 per cent of buildings. (Getty Images)
<p>Roughly 10,000 people in the Lower Mainland might die if a shallow earthquake struck directly beneath the city of Vancouver &mdash; that's the projection from a worst-case scenario in the provincial government's Earthquake Immediate Response Plan.</p>
Filed under: Natural Hazards
Testing how the earth might move for Trafalgar Centre
The Nelson Mail   25 March 2015   New Zealand   Christchurch  
CPT test
<p>Ground work and testing is under way at the Trafalgar Centre as Nelson City Council pushes to meet the building's reopening deadline of next February. A large Fugro Geotechnical truck, one of two in the country, has arrived from Christchurch to test the ...