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  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, UCL
A view of residential towers in Vancouver’s West End neighbourhood near English Bay. Many buildings in the area are susceptible to damage from earthquakes. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Vancouver built up fast — but now its older towers face an earthquake reckoning

Preetish Kakoty, UCL and Carlos Molina Hutt, University of British Columbia

Modern engineering practices explicitly design concrete to be more resilient to earthquakes, but older buildings predate such practices. That makes them especially vulnerable.

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