Seismic screening and live monitoring for entire facility portfolios.
FacilityShake helps you assess your entire facility portfolio for earthquake vulnerability, and watches for real events as they happen. Built for the facility and asset managers, capital planners, and critical infrastructure owners.
A Ground Motion Prediction Equation tool built on live seismic data, National Building Code of Canada engineering, NRCan hazard data, and finite-fault modelling.
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You’re responsible for hundreds of buildings.
Detailed seismic assessments cost thousands per building and take months. So most portfolios get assessed one crisis at a time — after a scare, after a grant deadline, after someone asks a question nobody can answer.
Meanwhile the questions keep coming. Which buildings house our most vulnerable occupants? How much shaking can this building take? Where does the next dollar of seismic upgrade money do the most good?
Screening isn’t a replacement for engineering. It’s how you decide which buildings deserve an engineer.
Assess. Monitor. Simulate. Report.
Assess yourself.
Answer a short set of structured questions about each building and FacilityShake returns a defensible vulnerability tier. Construction type, lateral force resistance, age against code era, height, irregularities, and the ground it sits on.
It works like a calculator wired into the building code — your answers run against NBC 2020 code eras and site amplification, and it flags where a professional assessment is genuinely warranted. Your facility managers already know the important details.
Monitor real events, big and small.
FacilityShake monitors active shaking, running a live Ground Motion Prediction Equation against your buildings. Not a general alert — your facilities, ranked within minutes, compared against their building code era or known seismic resilience.
You have limited staff to assess buildings.
Simulate the earthquake before it happens.
Model a specific event — a Cascadia subduction rupture, a local crustal fault — and see what it does to every building you own. Use it for exercise planning, continuity of operations, capital planning, and the budget conversation where someone asks what the risk actually is.
Pick an earthquake and watch it land on a real portfolio:
Many planning discussions are hypothetical: what if there was a quake here, and it was this big — what would happen? “What if” Quakes support exactly that discussion-based planning and exercising, using FacilityShake’s ground motion prediction equations, finite-fault modelling, and your facility portfolio’s own building data.
It brings the hypothetical to life and grounds it in data — so the discussion stays productive.
You can put a tsunami notification into the exercise too — broadcast a Warning, Advisory or Watch to the official notification zones and see which of your facilities it reaches. That exercises the notification, not the wave: FacilityShake does not do tsunami mapping or inundation modelling. It does use that data where it has been published — telling you which of your buildings sit inside a modelled inundation zone, and which fall inside a live tsunami alert while one is in effect.
Custom Quakes let you upload earthquake simulations created by you, your own GIS team, universities, or agencies. It also supports CAP-CP alert XML files, so you can simulate earthquake alerts issued over the Alert Ready system — replayed offline against your buildings.
Custom quake
Run a simulation built by you, your GIS team, a university or an agency — or replay a CAP-CP alert.
Accepts CAP-CP alert XML plus contour and grid ShakeMap formats.
Report to whoever needs to know.
Screenings, rankings and scenario runs roll up into printable reports — facility cards for site managers, portfolio summaries for the council table, shelter guidance for emergency programs.
When a real earthquake happens the same machinery becomes an impact snapshot: who is worst hit, who needs a walkthrough, who can stay open. It goes to four places at once, because the operations centre, the site manager and the person who signs things are never in the same room.
When someone asks “can I see that?”, this is what you hand them.
Real portfolios. Real hazard data.
FacilityShake has been built against working datasets, not toy examples: public facility portfolios, schools, hospitals, recreation centres, residences.
Available for British Columbia, New Zealand, and Australia, with regional hazard models and terminology for each.
The hazard side is not our arithmetic. It is the published national hazard model, the published scenario catalogue and the live agency feeds — wired together and pointed at your addresses.
All of the mathematics is already there in the building codes, and the data is already public. FacilityShake stitches it together for you.
FacilityShake does not replace engineers, or a strong-motion network with live sensors on your buildings.
But that gold standard is often too expensive to reach — and an organization can spend hundreds of thousands on consulting before a dollar goes into an actual retrofit or seismic upgrade. Use this tool to prioritize the finite seismic budget you have, and to make sure every facility in your portfolio carries some level of awareness behind it for seismic planning.
Where the numbers come from.
A published Ground Motion Prediction Equation turns magnitude, depth, fault type and distance into expected peak ground acceleration. It is the same class of equation behind a national ShakeMap — run here at the coordinates of each of your buildings, not averaged over a region.
A large earthquake is not a point. Once rupture length starts to matter, the event is modelled as a fault trace and every building is measured to that line. On a Cascadia run that is the difference between a comfortable number and a real one.
Live feeds from Natural Resources Canada and the United States Geological Survey, watched together. A Puget Sound earthquake shakes Victoria, so the border is not a filter.
Historic and deterministic scenario runs come from NRCan’s published earthquake scenario catalogue and Canada’s OpenDRR datasets. “The Big One” on your map is a documented rupture, not a magnitude we picked.
The National Building Code dropped the old Fa/Fv lookup tables in favour of hazard values published for each site’s own coordinates — a change made in NBC 2020 and carried into NBC 2025. FacilityShake uses those per-site values directly, which most screening tools haven’t caught up to.
The same earthquake does not arrive the same everywhere. Bedrock passes the shaking through; soft soil traps and amplifies it — on the softest site classes a building can shake two to four times harder than an identical building on rock a kilometre away. Site class is one of the five things you enter, and it is applied to every result — which is why a facility can read above the shaking band drawn around it on the map.
A seismically resilient building built in 1999 is not the same as a seismically resilient building built in 2023 — codes change, and the ground-motion research underneath them changes too. FacilityShake takes all of it into account: every building is screened against the code era it was actually built under, from pre-code stock up to NBC 2025, so a building finished in 2025 is held to the current code, not a generic average. And where a professional engineer has already assessed a building, you enter their numbers and the tool carries them from there.
Licensed to your organisation.
One licence covers your whole portfolio and everyone who works on it — unlimited users, always. The price is set by one thing: the number of facilities you screen. Self-serve signup is coming, but you don’t have to wait for it — ask, and we’ll set you up.
Starter
$30/month, billed annually
Up to 6 facilities. One flat price.
- Unlimited users and unlimited screenings
- Live event monitoring and scenario simulation
- Email alerts included
- Attached additions included
- Month-to-month available at 20% more
Portfolio
7 to 50 facilities, billed annually
| First 6 facilities | $30 / month |
| Facilities 7–10 | $5 each / month |
| Facilities 11–30 | $4 each / month |
| Facilities 31–50 | $3 each / month |
Each rate applies only to the facilities in that range. 10 facilities is $50 a month; 30 is $130; 50 is $190.
- Everything in Starter
- Every screened record counts as a facility
- Optional: we load your portfolio for you — one-time $3,500
Enterprise
51+ facilities, managed licence
Flat annual fee, quoted per organisation.
- Everything in Portfolio
- We load your portfolio and keep it current, year after year
- Dedicated Canadian environment where your policy requires it
- Invoice or purchase order, aligned to your fiscal year
Prices are per month, billed annually; month-to-month billing is available at 20% more. Email alerts are included. SMS/RCS alerts are an optional add-on at $0.50 per facility per month ($5 minimum). Prices in Canadian dollars, plus applicable taxes. Invoicing and purchase orders available for organisations that need them.
Start with one facility. If the result tells you something you didn’t know, do the rest of the portfolio.