It’s a typically rainy day in January at 2 p.m.
Downtown cores are packed, with businesses in full swing after workers have returned from the holidays.
Then the earthquake hits Vancouver. Most people hear it before they feel it — a low, rumbling sound similar to a freight train. Closest to the epicentre, violent shaking, which lasts 10 to 20 seconds, knocks people off their feet.
Tall buildings sway. Some buildings collapse, and many shift and crack.
The ground ruptures in some areas. There are fires from broken gas lines and flooding from the recent rains increases as some dikes failing.
Windows break and glass falls. Many people who run outside suffer injury or death from falling and flying objects.
Thousands are trapped.
Medical facilities are overwhelmed.
This is the grim picture painted of a hypothetical, worst-case scenario earthquake that hits Vancouver.
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