15% Chance of Local Cascadia Quake & Tsunami in Next 50-60 Years
- John Cornelison
- March 11, 2012
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According to Bill Steele, the public is woefully unprepared for a certain disaster: we just don’t know when. Mr. Steele is Seismology Lab Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network (PNSN) at the University of Washington Department of Earth and Space Sciences where he has worked since 1993.
In a widely reported story (covered by USA Today and many other major papers across the country), the Longview Daily News reports that much needs to be done in the northwest to get prepared.
In other recent news, experts are now saying that the northwest now actually is more likely than California to have the worse event.
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There is a new tool available to look at how to enhance your house’s chance of surviving future earthquakes, winter storms, and flooding.