Earthquake
The three actions you should do during an earthquake
What is: Drop, Cover, and Hold On
True or False: Tsunamis are slow moving waves.
what is: False. Tsunamis can travel at speeds of about 500 miles or 805 kilometers an hour, almost as fast as a jet plane.
Which CITZ location can gov't staff purchase an earthquake kit?
This is the most frequent type of disaster in Canada.
what is: Floods. Floods happen at any time and are caused by rain, snow melt, or even dam failure.
what is: Cascadia Subduction Zone
True or False: a tsunami is a single big wave that comes ashore.
what is: False. a tsunami can be a series of waves, with the latter waves becoming bigger than the first one.
This is the name of the one-stop Emergency Preparedness website managed by EMBC.
what is: Prepared BC
This movie starred Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson responding to a catastrophic earthquake in California.
what is: San Andreas. This movie received 49% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
what is: Manitoba is least likely, British Columbia is most likely.
This is the origin of the the Japanese word 'Tsunami'
What is: 'tsu' which means 'harbor' and 'nami' which means 'wave'? Tsunami means 'Harbour Wave'.
How many days worth of supplies should you have in your emergency kit?
what is: three days / 72 hours
This is the difference between a hurricane, cyclone, and typhoon.
what is: they are all the same, but are called different things depending on where they occur.
These are three different types of earthquakes.
what is: Crustal, Deep, and Subduction
These are two natural warnings a tsunami may occur.
what are: a local earthquake, and, water rapidly receding from shore.
These 5 types of disasters can affect British Columbians.
what are: earthquake, tsunami, forest fires, landslides, avalanches, storms, pandemics, floods
These are two additional places where you should store emergency kits, besides your home.
what are: your place of work, and your vehicle. Disasters can happen anywhere!
This is knows as the Ring of Fire
what is: a ring of volcanos around the edges of the Pacific Ocean. About 90% of all earthquakes occur in this zone as well as 75% of all active volcanos.
This is the largest earthquake to impact British Columbia.
What is: the 1700 Cascadia earthquake which occurred along the Cascadia subduction zone on January 26, 1700 with an estimated moment magnitude of 8.7–9.2. The megathrust earthquake involved the Juan de Fuca Plate from mid-Vancouver Island, south along the Pacific Northwest coast as far as northern California.