Taking Action

RiskProfiler is intended to provide information about seismic risk across Canada for use by Emergency Managers, Planners, and others in informing risk reduction. Understanding disaster risk is priority 1 of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. RiskProfiler can help reduce risk by providing data that supports efforts for:

  • Updating emergency plans
  • Scenario-based emergency preparedness exercises
  • Understanding estimated financial implications of seismic risk over time
  • Showing the impact of retrofit programs in your local context
  • Providing information on seismic risk to inform community planning
  • Identifying the need for detailed, local risk assessment

For examples of some of these applications by real communities, please see the Example Use Cases tab.

As discussed in the Uncertainties and Intended Use section, RiskProfiler provides information towards determining your local risk, but is not a comprehensive or definitive picture of seismic or disaster risk. In addition to the information in RiskProfiler, community decision-making around risk reduction should consider:

  • Community nuances which may not be captured in the national model
  • Driving factors contributing to risk
  • Community vulnerability
  • Community resilience

RiskProfiler does not provide direction or information about next steps towards risk reduction, however, the following resources may be of interest:

About Earthquake Scenarios

An earthquake scenario describes a potential earthquake and its consequences. Scenarios are defined by a magnitude, location, fault type, and are developed for specific faults that can produce large earthquakes.

Explore earthquake scenarios

About Probabilistic Earthquake Risk

When multiple earthquake scenarios are combined, the result is called probabilistic earthquake risk. Probabilistic earthquake risk represents the potential consequences of all earthquakes that may occur over a defined time period from known earthquake sources. For example, probabilistic earthquake risk analysis can estimate the average annual economic losses from earthquakes or the economic loss expected to occur about once every 500 years.

Consider probabilistic earthquake risk

Probabilistic Risks

Probabilistic seismic risk considers the impact of all possible earthquakes, over a time period of interest. To explore the risk in your area, please select an indicator below.

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