RiskProfiler is intended to provide information about seismic risk across Canada for use by Emergency Managers, Planners, and others in informing risk reduction. Understanding disaster risk is priority 1 of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. RiskProfiler can help reduce risk by providing data that supports efforts for:
As discussed in the Uncertainties and Intended Use section, RiskProfiler provides information towards determining your local risk, but is not a comprehensive or definitive picture of seismic or disaster risk. In addition to the information in RiskProfiler, community decision-making around risk reduction should consider:
RiskProfiler does not provide direction or information about next steps towards risk reduction, however, the following resources may be of interest:
An earthquake scenario describes a potential earthquake and its consequences. Scenarios are defined by a magnitude, location, fault type, and are developed for specific faults that can produce large earthquakes.
When multiple earthquake scenarios are combined, the result is called probabilistic earthquake risk. Probabilistic earthquake risk represents the potential consequences of all earthquakes that may occur over a defined time period from known earthquake sources. For example, probabilistic earthquake risk analysis can estimate the average annual economic losses from earthquakes or the economic loss expected to occur about once every 500 years.
Probabilistic seismic risk considers the impact of all possible earthquakes, over a time period of interest. To explore the risk in your area, please select an indicator below.