Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: : University of the Fraser Valley
greenSPEAK Seminar Series in conjunction with the
Department of Geography and the Environment Discovery Series present Dean Lucy Lee:
Thursday, March 12 at 1 pm, Room A413
Open to the public (free)
The UFV Centre for Sustainability greenSPEAK Seminar series in conjunction with the Department of Geography and the Environment Discovery Series present Dean Lucy Lee’s presentation on The Sustainability in the face of a Megathrust earthquake: Lessons from the 1970 Peruvian earthquake.
Sustainability refers to the ability to continue supporting a healthy lifestyle. It requires ingenuity, education and innovation, learning from the past and being prepared for crisis events.
In 1970 an earthquake of a magnitude 7.9 caused over a million lives to be altered in northern Peru within a 200 mile radius from the epicentre off the Pacific coast. This was caused by a slip in the Nazca Plate subducting under the South American Plate. Lasting only 45 seconds, the earthquake crumbled adobe homes, bridges, roads, across almost 100,000 square kilometers, an area equivalent to 20x the size of Lower mainland, BC. The death toll was over 60,000 people with 20,000 lives lost as a result of a landslide that completely wiped out two towns off the face of earth.
This event has been recorded among the top 10 deadliest earthquakes as listed by the Times magazine, and the massive avalanche, is still recorded as the worst in recorded human history. This talk is about survival and rebirth of the affected areas and what could happen here in the Fraser Valley when the locked Cascadia’s fault frictional resistance is overcome and a megathrust earthquake unleashed.
Event Location : University of the Fraser Valley
Sustainability in the face of a Megathrust earthquake: Lessons from the 1970 Peruvian earthquake
Date(s): Thursday, March 12Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm