Following one of the strongest recorded earthquakes in history off the coast of Russia, tsunami alerts were issued across the Pacific, including in British Columbia. Western University has experts available to speak with media on tsunami risks, earthquakes, and disaster preparedness.
Katsu Goda
Associate Professor, Earth Sciences; Canada Research Chair in Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment
Areas of expertise: Tsunami hazard and risk modeling, catastrophic earthquake risk management, engineering seismology, earthquake engineering.
Paul Kovacs
Executive Director, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
Areas of expertise: Earthquake building codes and practices, disaster safety and economic policy, disaster resilience and adaptation.
Robert Shcherbakov
Associate Professor, Earth Sciences
Areas of expertise: Earthquake physics and statistics, temporal and spatial scaling properties of earthquakes and aftershocks, induced seismicity, earthquake hazard assessment and forecasting.
MEDIA CONTACTS: Justin Zadorsky, Media Relations Officer, Western University, 226.377.1673 (mobile), jzadorsk@uwo.ca.
Jeff Renaud, Media Relations Consultant, 519-520-7281 (mobile), jrenaud9@uwo.ca
