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Natural hazards

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Unstable Slopes

 
                                   Hope Slide, just after it happened.             Hope Slide today
                                   January, 1965

                                                              Damage of 1983 debris flow in Lions Bay


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Earthquakes

 

Block diagram of southwestern B.C. showing the Juan
de Fuca plate descending beneath North America at a subduction zone

Nisqually earthquake in 2001 made the news

 



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Tsunamis

Tsunami hazard map


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