On Borrowed Time: North America's Next Big Quake Audiobook

Finalist, Balsillie Prize for Public Policy and Victoria Butler Book Prize

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book



The Big One and what we can do to get ready for it.



Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a zone that can produce the world’s biggest earthquakes and tsunamis. In the eastern part of the continent, small cities and large, from Ottawa to Montréal to New York City, sit in active earthquake zones. In fact, more than 100-million North Americans live in active seismic zones, many of whom do not realize the risk to their community.

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