Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment and Critical Infrastructure Inventory of Metro Vancouver

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Dr. Nadine Schuurman, Dr. John Clague, Michael Martin and Blake Walker for their guidance and advice in this project.

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