Silk and linen are traditional gifts for a twelfth anniversary, though technically the big day was yesterday, February 28. On that day in 2001, the Nisqually Quake hit. It was “just” a 6.8, but still, a good wake-up call, we used to think. Continue reading It’s Been 12 Years Since the Nisqually Quake
Using very conservative assumptions about how much sea level is rising, City of Seattle planners project that within the next 40 years, storm surges and high tides will flood new areas of Seattle. While the sea level is expected to rise six inches, that coupled with an extreme event could raise the water by three to four feet. Continue reading Eyeing Floods of 2050, Seattle Prepares to Hike its Skirt
Does your disaster kit have “at least a week’s worth of medications and any necessary medical supplies, sanitation items and a portable shovel since you might need to dig a hole outside”? Don’t laugh, says John Schelling. Sewage happens. Continue reading The Earthquake Prep Details You Haven’t Thought of Yet
“If kids come home from school and talk about what they did at school today and parents talk about what they did–and they both participated in the ShakeOut–it can lead a great discussion about how well the family is prepared, and encourages them to follow through on anything they still need to do to.” Continue reading The Great Washington ShakeOut, an Earthquake Drill, Set for Thursday Morning
“Depending upon your situation, your plan should include numbers for schools, daycares, adult family homes, primary care doctors, and numbers for vets and locations of pet-friendly hotels if you have loved ones with four legs.” Continue reading Prepared for an Earthquake? It’s Disaster Preparedness Month.
This week has been especially active in Western Washington, with six quakes Tuesday, fourteen Wednesday, and eleven on Thursday. To date, our portion of the Pacific Rim’s Ring of Fire is merely feeling peptic: Some of these quakes are truly tiny, 0.2 and 0.4 magnitude on the Richter scale. But a 2.4 hit near Woodburn, Oregon, a little after 5 a.m. this morning. Continue reading The Pacific Northwest Has Got the “Tiny Quake” Shakes
Beaux Arts, the little village on the eastern shores of Lake Washington, was the site of a 1.7 magnitude quake this morning, at 8:24 a.m., with a 1.4 quake following exactly an hour later, in the Puget Sound just off Bainbridge Island. Continue reading Two Tiny Seattle Earthquakes Friday Morning
