Event: As part of ShakeOut BC, a province-wide earthquake drill, UBC will be hosting an earthquake preparedness symposium. Earthquake experts are also available for comment.
Date: Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012
Time of the symposium: 4 – 6 p.m.
(Experts are available for interviews prior to the symposium).
Location: Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
Room 1250
2260 West Mall, Vancouver http://www.maps.ubc.ca/?633
Website: http://emergency.ubc.ca/shakeout/earthquake-symposium/
Media are invited to speak to earthquake experts, some of who are participating in a symposium with topics that include a study of how a major earthquake could affect Vancouver, earthquake warning technology, understanding liquefaction and earthquake preparedness at UBC. Media are also welcome to attend the symposium.
UBC Chief Risk Officer Ron Holton will be moderating a series of talks by Profs. Carlos Ventura, Liam Finn, Civil Engineering professor emeritus and Research Scientist Murray Journeay, Geological Survey of Canada.
UBC symposium participants:
Prof. Carlos Ventura
Dept of Civil Engineering
Tel: 604.822.6946
Email: ventura@civil.ubc.ca
• Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Facility
• Structural vibrations and safety of large civil engineering structures
• performance-based guidelines for seismic retrofit of schools
Prof. Emeritus Liam Finn
Tel: 604.822.0929
Email: finn@civil.ubc.ca
• Soil dynamics, seismic response and liquefaction, analytical and computer methods, offshore structures, centrifuge modelling.
Other UBC earthquake experts:
Prof. Perry Adebar
Dept. of Civil Engineering
Tel: 604.822.6820
Email: adebar@civil.ubc.ca
• Structural engineering, earthquake engineering, high-rise buildings, bridges, concrete structures
Prof. Emeritus Peter Byrne
Dept. of Civil Engineering
Tel: 604.822.2156
Home tel: 604.732.5448
Email: pmb@civil.ubc.ca
• Liquefaction in the Fraser Delta and B.C. hydro dams and bridge and pipelines water crossings
Assoc. Prof. Kenneth Elwood
Tel: 604.822.0581
Email: elwood@civil.ubc.ca
(Experienced first-hand the 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand)
• Seismic design and seismic response of existing concrete and masonry buildings, seismic retrofit.
