M 4.3, Queen Charlotte Islands

M 4.3, Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada region (via USGS Earthquake Center)

Is your child’s school seismically safe?

Pop quiz: how many schools in Vancouver need seismic upgrades. Answer? Sadly, almost all of them. More than 90 of Vancouver’s 109 schools need seismic safety upgrades, many urgently so, and a significant number of those schools should in fact be demolished and rebuilt. See Families for School Seismic Safety for more information.