BC省，可以用邮政编码来预测地震的损害程度，你可以查一下

http://www.iclr.org/images/Earthquake_Hazard_Zones.pdf

最危险的地区包括机场， Richmond, Delta and Victoria

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – It’s coming at precisely 10:16 this morning — are you ready?

Schools, businesses and governments across the province are preparing to “drop, cover, and hold on” during the Great BC Shakeout, the largest earthquake drill in BC history.

You can take part by listening live at 10:16 a.m. on News1130.

Each year, about 4,000 earthquakes are recorded in Canada, many of them in the seismically active region around BC. Most are small, but at least nine earthquakes in or near Canada have registered a magnitude of seven or higher in the past century.

How a major quake will affect your home, school or place of work depends not only the magnitude and epicentre, but also your postal code.

In 2004, the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) released an actuarial map, ranking seismic risk across Canada by postal code and found 13 fell into their “extreme” rating. All of those were in southwestern BC.

“The ratings go from ‘very low’ to ‘extreme’ and the extreme rating is mostly in the Vancouver and Victoria areas,” says ICLR Managing Director Glenn McGillivary.

“The biggest, most damaging quakes are possible in those areas. Historically, they’ve had some very large quakes and we know the potential there is very high for a very large, damaging quake of several tens of billions of dollars in damage,” he tells News1130.

Thirteen postal codes fall into the ICLR’s “extreme” rating, including V7B, the code for Vancouver international Airport. The rest are within Richmond, Delta and Victoria.

The “very high” risk category includes V4L in Delta and V4R in Maple Ridge. V2S and V2T in Abbotsford are ranked “high,” as is V7P in North Vancouver.