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Originally Posted by SpikePhanta
Abotsford has a minor fault line running under it, but vancouver city proper doesnt.
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Don't believe that for a second. The Christchurch earthquake was under that city and that fault was unknown until it went off. And they have extensively studied the fault zones in that area and still they missed it.
When Toronto had a Temblor a few years ago they discovered a previously unknown fault line that runs under the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant. Seismologists extensively studied that area for years before it was built and it was placed there because there was supposed to be no fault.
Moral of the story: They only know for sure about faults that have slipped and nothing about the ones that haven't. Vancouver is in the Ring of Fire, I hazard to guess it has more than one fault running under it.