ICLR workshop to look at lessons Canada can learn from worldwide damaging earthquakes

The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction will be hosting a workshop on earthquakes and what Canada can learn from damaging events across the world.

The Oct. 11 event, part of the ICLR’s ongoing Friday Forum series, will host Dr. Garry Rogers as its speaker, a senior research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada specializing in earthquake studies.

Dr. Rogers will review the current knowledge of earthquake hazard in Canada and discuss some recent international examples of damaging earthquakes that can be used to better understand our own hazard.

Dr. Rogers is also an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria where he supervises graduate students and is the Principal Investigator establishing the offshore seismograph network for NEPTUNE Canada.

He currently serves on the Standing Committee for Earthquake Design, which is responsible for earthquake resistant provisions in Canada’s National Building Code and as Canada’s representative on the Pacific Tsunami Warning System. Recently he served on advisory committees to the Earthquake Program of the U.S. Geological Survey and to the Southern California Earthquake Center.

ICLR’s event will be held at its offices at 20 Richmond Street East, Suite 210, in Toronto (10:00 am to 11:30 am). The event will also be streamed live online via Webex webcast (RSVP for details).

RSVP: Tracy Waddington (twaddington@iclr.org)