Emergency preparedness: MLAs enter the Shake Zone
Channel: GovernmentofBC
Date: 2016-05-17

Three weeks ahead of British Columbia’s first full-scale major earthquake exercise in Port Alberni, MLAs are getting an opportunity to experience what “The Big One” might feel like.

Emergency Management BC, Minister of State for Emergency Preparedness Naomi Yamamoto and the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) offered MLAs and local media the opportunity to participate in an earthquake simulator. The “Shake Zone” provides a sense of the impact a high-magnitude earthquake could have in our Province’s coastal communities.

Learn more: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016TRAN0099-000798