Fault Lines

by CBC
14

A catastrophic earthquake hits Canada's West Coast. In Fault Lines CBC Vancouver Seismologist Johanna Wagstaffe guides you through two disastrous scenarios so you can prepare yourself, your family, and your neighbours.

Recent Episodes
  • Fault Lines presents What On Earth: “Can Earth Day be badass again?
    Apr 22, 2024 – 00:29:12
  • Episode 1 - Ripples in a Pond
    Oct 11, 2016 – 00:26:02
  • Episode 2 - The First 24 hours
    Oct 11, 2016 – 00:34:24
  • Episode 3 - 72 Hours - When Supplies Run Out
    Oct 11, 2016 – 00:26:29
  • Episode 4 - One Week and a New Normal
    Oct 11, 2016 – 00:24:17
  • Episode 5 - A Month, A Year, and Lessons from Christchurch
    Oct 11, 2016 – 00:37:48
Recent Reviews
  • Zopea
    Scary
    I live in Seattle so this is definitely relevant. I feel totally unprepared for any major earthquake we’ll have, but this is definitely giving me a lot to think about and helping me get my mind wrapped around what will happen.
  • Jjmongo
    Great host
    Very interesting documentary with good interviews and a nice pace.
  • Wawala
    Research-backed warnings
    It has what-if disasters scenarios well designed after the experiences of Christchurch in 2011. The city's official line is too confident: the schools aren't ready; 72hrs of supplies is not enough; the building codes, though good enough to get us through the "big one", aren't good enough to assure we have a building safe to re-enter after it hits. The podcast is not intending to scare but to inform. I wish everyone on the southwest coast of BC would listen.
  • StevenElliott
    Unnerving.
    The production quality is amazing. This podcast really pressures you to contemplate how we take for granted the Vancouver area hasn't had to deal with an earthquake yet. We must seriously prepare as a community, and make that an urgent priority.
  • OrangeBarrel45
    It's going to be really, really, really bad
    So here it is in a nutshell. We're all going to get blasted. We're underprepared. And not willing to spend the money to get prepared. And even if we were we may not have time. And no one talks about the massive aftershocks that could go on for months. And the consequences of those. The best thing to do is to move out of the danger zone. Which is exactly what we're doing. We're putting our home on the market next week and moving. We decided we'd have to be insane to continue living in an area like this that is going to get mega blasted. We're just going to watch it all go down on CNN and social media from far away. Crazy thing is we'll have a bidding war among fools who want to buy our house. Good luck to all of you who decide to remain. We're just not into 9.0+ quakes, tsunamis, thousands of bridges and building collapsing, no water or electricity for days weeks no wait I mean months and a society that descends into anarchy.
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