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    Canada’s Earthquakes: ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’

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    Much of Canada is ‘earthquake country’. Tiny earthquakes (that can only be recorded by seismographs) happen every day. On average, earthquakes large enough to be felt occur every week in Canada, damaging earthquakes are years to decades apart, and some of the world’s largest earthquakes are typically separated by intervals of centuries. In this article, we provide details on the most significant earthquakes that have been recorded in, or near, Canada, including where and when they occurred, how they were felt, and the effects of those earthquakes. We also provide a brief review of how earthquakes are monitored across Canada and some recent earthquake hazard research. It is the results of this monitoring and research, which provide knowledge on earthquake hazard, that are incorporated into the National Building Code of Canada. This, in turn, will contribute to reduced property losses from future earthquakes across Canada. SOMMAIRE Un bonne partie du Canada est un ‘pays de séismes’. De petits séismes (que seuls les séismographes peuvent enregistrer) s’y produisent quotidiennement. En moyenne, un séisme assez fort pour qu’on le ressente s’y produit à intervalle d’une semaine; assez fort pour causer des dommages s’y produit à intervalle de quelques années à quelques décennies; alors que l’intervalle de récurrence des plus grands séismes est de l’ordre des siècles. Dans le présent article on trouvera des détails sur les plus importants séismes s’étant produits sur ou à proximité du territoire canadien, incluant le lieu et le moment, leurs manifestations et leurs répercussions. On y décrit sommairement les moyens de détection déployés sur le territoire canadien ainsi que quelques-unes des recherches récentes sur les risques sismiques. Ce sont les résultats des efforts de surveillance et des recherches sur les tremblements de terre qui ont été intégrés dans le Code national du bâtiment du Canada. Et cela aidera à amoindrir les répercussions des séismes à venir sur la propriété

    Soothing the Threatened Brain: Leveraging Contact Comfort with Emotionally Focused Therapy

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    Social relationships are tightly linked to health and well-being. Recent work suggests that social relationships can even serve vital emotion regulation functions by minimizing threat-related neural activity. But relationship distress remains a significant public health problem in North America and elsewhere. A promising approach to helping couples both resolve relationship distress and nurture effective interpersonal functioning is Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples (EFT), a manualized, empirically supported therapy that is strongly focused on repairing adult attachment bonds. We sought to examine a neural index of social emotion regulation as a potential mediator of the effects of EFT. Specifically, we examined the effectiveness of EFT for modifying the social regulation of neural threat responding using an fMRI-based handholding procedure. Results suggest that EFT altered the brain\u27s representation of threat cues in the presence of a romantic partner. EFT-related changes during stranger handholding were also observed, but stranger effects were dependent upon self-reported relationship quality. EFT also appeared to increase threat-related brain activity in regions associated with self-regulation during the no-handholding condition. These findings provide a critical window into the regulatory mechanisms of close relationships in general and EFT in particular

    Intensity reports for the Val-des-Bois, Québec, earthquake of June 23, 2010

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    Canadian seismic hazard values for use with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's loss estimation program, Hazus

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    A review of NBCC 2005 seismic hazard results for Canada - the interface to the ground and prognosis for urban risk mitigation

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    Knowledge of in-slab earthquakes needed to improve seismic hazard estimates for southwestern British Columbia

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    A review of NBCC 2005 seismic hazard results for Canada - the interface to the ground and prognosis for urban risk mitigation

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    We summarize the methods being used for the new seismic hazard maps of Canada and estimate median ground motion on firm soil sites for a probability of exceedence of 2 % in 50 years. Spectral acceleration at 0.2, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 second periods and peak acceleration form the basis of the seismic provisions of the 2005 National Building Code of Canada. New soil factors convert these firm soil values to other foundation conditions. The factors act to reduce design ground motions on rock and increase them on soft soils, and account for non-linear behaviour of soils under strong shaking. We discuss implications for geotechnical design, microzonation, and urban risk. RÉSUMÉ Nous résumons les méthodes utilisées pour les nouvelles cartes d’aléa séismique du Canada et nous estimons le mouvement moyen du sol sur sol ferme pour une probabilité d’excédence de 2 % en 50 ans. L’accélération spectrale de 0,2, 0,5, 1,0 et 2,0 secondes et l’accélération maximale sont la base des dispositions séismiques du Code National du Bâtiment du Canada de 2005. Des nouveaux facteurs de sol convertissent ces valeurs de sol ferme aux autres conditions de fondation. Les facteurs agissent à réduire les mouvements de sol de conception sur du roc et à les augmenter sur des sols meubles, et les facteurs expliquent le comportement non linéaire des sols en cas d'ébranlement fort. On discute les conséquences pour la conception géotechnique, le microzonage et le risque urbain

    Deaggregation of seismic hazard for selected Canadian cities

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    Fourth generation seismic hazard maps of Canada: Maps and grid values to be used with the 2005 National Building Code of Canada

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