The forecast factory: How an Alberta tech company simulates disasters before they happen
On a May evening in 2019, Edmonton’s Myrna Bittner watched as a 6.7-magnitude earthquake tore through Santa Clara, Calif. Labelled a nine on the Mercalli scale—an index measuring the intensity of earthquakes—the quake levelled buildings, upended roadways, and plunged the city of more than 100,000 into darkness. As the trembling settled, splintered gas lines spewed…
