Catholic schools install earthquake sensors, alarms

Underground devices fitted at 21 locations, 46 schools linked up to early warning system

Carlos Ventura, director of UBC's Earthquake Engineering Research Facility, displays the technology going in the ground near most of the schools in the archdiocese. Agnieszka Krawczynski / The B.C. Catholic.

Shiny new earthquake sirens and detection equipment are now plugged in to nearly every Catholic school in the Lower Mainland. For full story see The B.C. Catholic website.


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