Chances that a massive earthquake and tsunami

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May 16, 2005

When B.C. gets hit

Chances that a massive earthquake and tsunami will devastate the Lower Mainland are frighteningly high. Consider this a wake-up call.

KEN MacQUEEN

When the inevitable hits British Columbia, expect a final, fleeting moment of denial. Perhaps a big truck is going by, or a construction crew is digging a foundation, or this is just a dizzy spell. But the ground keeps moving and the air fills with dust and there is the sound of breaking glass and falling objects, and the groaning protest of a building that was never meant to dance. There will be an irrational urge to flee, but where? Maybe there is enough wherewithal to dive under a desk or a table or to brace in a doorway -- and to think of that damned earthquake kit that never got assembled. Is that the smell of gas? My God, where are the kids?

If you are lucky, and this is Vancouver, you will eventually stumble outside when the shaking finally stops, to a city changed beyond recognition. People will band together. Some will do stupid things, clustering sheeplike at the bases of downtown office towers, waiting to be shredded by showers of glass at the first aftershock. But unlikely leaders will emerge and there will be extraordinary acts of bravery, as there always are. People will be pried from wrecked automobiles and shattered buildings. People will converge at St. Paul's Hospital in the West End; not for treatment but to pull patients and staff from its red brick rubble. There may be frantic rescue efforts at the ruins of the Main Street police station -- likely to fail residents of the Downtown Eastside when they need help most -- and at too many schools (more than 300 in the province are considered at high risk). Where are the kids? Pray they're not in class.

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