NDM-516: TSUNAMI VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT OF CANADIAN WEST COAST COMMUNITIES BASED ON EVACUATION CAPABILITY

• Main Authors: Cheff, Isabelle M., Nistor, Ioan, Palermo, Dan
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2016
• Subjects: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Hope Island; Masset; Pacific; Hope island
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/csce2016/London/NaturalDisasterMitigation/12; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/csce2016/article/1066/viewcontent/NDM_516.pdf

The Canadian Pacific coast is located in a highly seismic region with active convergent plates with the potential to generate large tsunamis. The tsunami vulnerability of communities in British Columbia is assessed using geographical information system (GIS) model for potential run up heights betwee...