Cascadia Rising: FEMA Prepping for Pacific Northwest Megaquake

Saturday, May 28, 2016
By Paul Martin

Allselfsustained.com
May 28, 2016

This summer the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) is conducting a large-scale preparedness drill, simulating a 9.0 magnitude quake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ), followed by a Tsunami that could create waves over 50 feet high.

The Drill, dubbed Cascadia Rising, will bring together local and state emergency responders, FEMA, and a number of military organizations and government first responders. The Drill comes as a number of top scientists are warning the Cascadia Subduction Zone is a disaster waiting to happen.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone: Megaquake and Pacific Northwest Tsunami

The Cascadia Subduction Zone spans from northern California to southern British Columbia. This subduction zone can produce some of the strongest earthquakes on the planet, and researchers are warning that the area could be long overdue for a quake that could exceed a magnitude 9.0.

While most people have heard of the San Andreas Fault line in California, very little attention has been given to the Cascadia Subduction Zone. But when compared to the San Andreas, the CSZ is a much larger and scarier threat.

“Cascadia can make an earthquake almost 30 times more energetic than the San Andreas to start with, and then it generates a tsunami at the same time, which the side-by-side motion of the San Andreas can’t do,” Chris Goldfinger, a professor of geophysics at Oregon State University told CNN.

“This would be like five or six Katrinas all at once, up and down from California to Canada, would be the closest thing I can think of,” said Goldfinger.

Federal, state and military officials are taking the threat seriously, and are working to put together a plan that will dictate their response when the ‘Big One’ hits.

The Cascadia Rising preparedness drill will test plans that have been put together over the last couple of years, plans that expects over 14,000 deaths, 30,000 injuries, and the complete devastation of the Pacific Northwest coast. According to planners, the quake could devastate the region for decades and could displace a million people from northern California to southern Canada.

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