{"id":506987,"date":"2026-03-01T08:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506987\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:19:20","slug":"study-finds-earthquake-risk-with-west-end-vancouver-high-rises-and-concrete-buildings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506987\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds earthquake risk with West End Vancouver high rises and concrete buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For years, staff and students at schools have practiced drills in case the &#8220;big one&#8221; hits, and we&#8217;ve all been warned to have an emergency plan in place to deal with the aftermath of a major earthquake. Now a study is focusing on how unsafe many West End Vancouver high rise concrete buildings will be, in the event a powerful tremor were to strike the south coast. Taya Fast reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, staff and students at schools have practiced drills in case the &#8220;big one&#8221; hits, and we&#8217;ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,201985,201984,23729,55,201983],"class_list":["post-506987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-concrete-buildings","tag-emergency-plan","tag-major-earthquake","tag-vancouver","tag-west-end-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}