Dr. Garry Rogers Lecture

The Earthquake Threat to British Columbia

A graduate of UBC and the University of Hawaii, Dr. Rogers is the leading authority on Canada’s west coast earthquakes. He is a senior research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada and a professor at the University of Victoria. He currently serves on the Canadian National Committee for Earthquake Engineering, which is responsible for earthquake provisions in the National Building Code, on advisory committees to the Earthquake Program of the US Geological Survey, the Southern California Earthquake Center, NEPTUNE Canada and the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics and as a national representative on the Pacific Tsunami Warning System.

Background Information

(These references were compiled by the webmaster in the hope that they will prove interesting to some readers. The web being what it is, some of them will have vanished by the time you go to look them up, and there is—of course—no guarantee of their accuracy.)

B.C. enters window of increased quake risk (2 Feb 2007)
Quake warnings can be a disaster (21 Feb 2007)
When the 'big one' hits... (2 Mar 2007)