Publications
 Post-Disaster Recovery Planning Forum: How-To Guide
Cannon
Beach Post-Disaster Recovery Planning Forum Summary Report
After
Action Report West Coast Tsunami Warning June 14, 2005
Mitigating
the Risk from Coastal Hazards: Strategies & Concepts for Recovery
from the December 26, 2004 Tsunami
Local
Quake Could Cause $33 Billion in Damage
Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes:
A magnitude 9.0 earthquake scenario
"Just-in-time" Inventories and Other Disaster Management Challenges
in the Seattle Metropolitan Area
Effects
of the 2001 Nisqually earthquake on small businesses in Washington
state
Did
the Nisqually Earthquake Cause Change Within the Business Community?
Living
with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest
Lessons
Learned Over Time
"No'
Exposure", the newsletter of the Association of Contingency Planners,
Washington chapter
Discussion
Paper: "Addressing Cascadia Earthquake
Risks"
Publications
Post-Disaster Recovery Planning Forum: How-To Guide
This guide, prepared by CREW and the Partnership for Disaster Resilience, provides an approach for assisting communities in identifying issues they will face after a disaster. The intent is to provide a process for communities to start pre-disaster planning for catastrophic events by engaging partners in identifying the critical issues the community will face in a post-disaster reconstruction environment. This is only the first step towards making your community more disaster resilient and sustainable - now and for the future. The guide was developed to complement the Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW) Cascadia Scenario, however, it can be used by any community to address any type of catastrophic disaster.
Cannon
Beach Post-Disaster Recovery Planning Forum Summary Report
The events of the 2004 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami as well as
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 have proven that most communities are
ill-prepared to undertake the long-term post-disaster recovery and
reconstruction efforts necessary to bring a community back to normal
following a catastrophic event. The importance of this issue to
coastal communities in the Pacific Northwest is heightened due to
its location along the Cascadia Subduction Zone where the Juan de
Fuca plate meets the North American plate. Earthquakes generated
along this 800 mile fault have far more widespread effects than
other types of quakes in the region and have the potential to result
in catastrophic impacts on coastal communities due to the generation
of local tsunamis.
After
Action Report West Coast Tsunami Warning June 14, 2005
The magnitude 7.2 (preliminary magnitude 7.4) earthquake and Tsunami
Warning issued for the West Coast of the United States on June 14,
2005, serves as a credible test of readiness for emergency officials
in interpreting and communicating critical information and enacting
emergency operations to protect the welfare of the residents and
visitors along the Oregon coast.This After Action Report from Oregon
Emergency Management examines the timelines of the events on June
14, the critical components of emergency operations involved in
receiving and issuing tsunami warnings and evacuations, and puts
forward ten findings with recommended actions to improve or refine
existing operations that will mitigate future losses during the
next inevitable Oregon tsunami.
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Mitigating
the Risk from Coastal Hazards: Strategies & Concepts for Recovery
from the December 26, 2004 Tsunami
This
report presents strategies, concepts and options for the recovery
and redevelopment of areas damaged by the December 26, 2004 tsunami.
Particular emphasis is placed on the use of scientifically based
hazard mitigation measures for siting and construction in conjunction
with flexible implementation strategies in the land use and construction
process. It is believed that the technically based standards will
protect the public to a greater degree from future flooding and
wave events, while the flexible strategies will ease and expedite
implementation and overall recovery. From a technical standpoint,
methods for dividing the tsunami inundation zone into subzones
are introduced. Within the subzones, appropriate multi-hazard
mitigation measures are presented. Recurrence interval considerations
are discussed, as well as strategies to adjust the construction
and siting standards based on the interval. In chapters 3 to 5,
concepts and strategies to assist implementation of the technically
based standards are presented to assist the short-term and long-term
recovery of tsunami stricken areas.
Local
Quake Could Cause $33 Billion in Damage
Jacqueline Meszaros, a University of Washington professor, has published
research on the disastrous effects the regional economy will suffer
in the event of a magnitude 6.7 earthquake along the Seattle Fault,
which runs through Hood Canal in the west, across the Puget Sound
and south Seattle, and into Bellevue and Issaquah.
Cascadia
Subduction Zone Earthquakes: A magnitude 9.0 earthquake scenario
)
Read
our new publication about the effects of a major subduction earthquake
on communities along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, stretching from
the Brooks Peninsula on Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino in northern
California. (PDF document is 34 MB).
"Just-in-time"
Inventories and Other Disaster Management Challenges in the Seattle
Metropolitan Area
Bob Freitag, CREW Executive
Director examines the possible effects of "just-in-time"
management strategies on post-earthquake recovery in the Seattle
area.
Effects
of the 2001 Nisqually earthquake on small businesses in Washington
state
Jacqueline Meszaros of the University of Washington,
Bothell, and Mark Fiegener of the University of Washington, Tacoma
examine the impact that the 2001 Nisqually earthquake had on businesses
throughout the Puget Sound region.
Did
the Nisqually Earthquake Cause Change Within the Business Community?
Bob Freitag, CREW Executive
Director examines some main lessons learned from the Cascadia Regional
Earthquake Workgroup (CREW) conference held on November 27th and
28th, 2001.
Living
with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest
Robert Yeats, a professor emeritus of geology at Oregon
State University, warns that the Pacific Northwest is facing a
catastrophe that could cause thousands of fatalities and tens
of billions of dollars of damage, an Oregon State University expert
says-and despite some progress made in the last few years to prepare
for this, a majority of people still don't seem to care. Read
the full review...
Lessons
Learned Over Time
This publication consists of the following three retrospective
studies of past earthquakes:
1) "Earthquake as Opportunity: The Reconstruction of Pacific Garden
Mall, Santa Cruz, After the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989"
2) "Empowering Local Governments in Disaster Recovery Management:
Lessons from Watsonville and Oakland in Recovering from the 1989
Loma Prieta Earthquake and Other Recent Disasters"
3) "Reexamining the Performance of Roll-Up Garage Doors in Fire
Stations in Recent California Earthquakes"
Ordering information is available...
"No'
Exposure", the newsletter of the Association of Contingency Planners,
Washington chapter, is on-line at:
http://www.acp-wa-state.org/Newsletter/NEWSLTR.html
Discussion
Paper: "Addressing Cascadia
Earthquake Risks", September 1992, Peter J. May &
Linda L. Noson.
[quakecas.doc] - Microsoft Word
6.0 File, 44K
Interested in Submitting
a paper or publication? Submit your paper or publication to Bob Freitag; once reviewed, they may
be posted, at CREW's discretion.
NOTE: The contents of the papers presented here are intented
to foster open discussion ONLY and are not endorsed by the Cascadia
Region Earthquake Workgroup.
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