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Shake,
Rattle
&
Rebound
Sandi Doughton
The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
Sandi Doughton
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July 20, 2015
An earthquake will destroy a
sizable portion of the Northwest
coast
The question is when
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“Los Angeles may shimmy with earthquakes and San Francisco may get another one, but Seattle, set on the
deepest glacial drift yet discovered, has a shock absorber that makes the city immune for all time.”
It can’t happen HERE
Professor Collier Cobb, 1920
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Remember WPPSS?
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Cascadia Subduction
Zone
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Is it OK to say “subduction” inpolite company?
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Pacific Ring of Fire
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The Ghost Forest of the Copalis
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Samurai records, tree rings & tsunami models date the NW’s last megaquake
Model by Kenji Satake
10 hours after earthquakeJANUARY 1700
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In the last 10,000 years there have been:• 20 Full Rip M 9.0s• 20 Partial Rip M 8-8.5
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Cascadia Fault• 10,000+ deaths• 30,000 injuries• 1 million people displaced• More than $80 billion in
damages• Impacts 140,000 square miles; 8
million people
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Unreinforced Masonry Buildings:• 800-1,000 in Seattle• 2,000 in Portland• 8,000 in Vancouver, BC
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Old concrete buildings:an unknown number in the Pacific Northwest
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Moderate to severe damage to:• 16,000 miles of highway – including much of
the I-5 corridor• 7,000 highway bridges• East-West traffic disrupted by landslides• 6,000 miles of railways• 2/3 of airports• Most port facilities
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Liquefaction• Seattle’s SoDo
area• Duwamish Valley• Ports of Seattle,
Tacoma, Vancouver
• Kent Valley
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• 80 percent of water and sewage systems with serious damage
• 70% of electrical facilities in I-5 corridor
• Oil, gas, fuel pipelines• 50 percent of hospitals• 3,000 schools
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Tsunami• Not a major issue for Seattle, Portland• Devastating on the coast:• Surges 30-40 feet high• 86,000 people live and work in tsunami
zones• Majority of fatalities
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The Resilient Washington State:
A 50-Year Plan for Improving Earthquake Recovery
“A resilient state is one that maintains services and livelihoods after an earthquake. In the event that services and livelihoods are disrupted, recovery occurs rapidly, with minimal social disruption, and results in a new and better condition.”
- RWS
Subcommittee
Report Accessible at: http://www.emd.wa.gov/about/SeismicSafetyCommittee.shtml
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Earthquake Early Warning• Seconds-Minutes• Take cover• Shut down:• Trains• Elevators• Industrial Processes
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100 percent chance of earthquakes
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Seafloor Monitoring: The Next Frontier
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Seafloor Monitoring• Long-term search for possible
precursory motion• Better tsunami warning