Earthquakes in the Cascadia Region
Effects & Hazards of Volcanic Ash
Tsunami Hazards in the Cascadia Region
CREW Shallow Earthquakes Scenario
After the 2008 National Earthquake Conference: From Research to Resilience – What next?
Cascadia Deep Earthquakes
Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes: A magnitude 9.0 earthquake scenario
CREW Products
CREW Shallow Earthquakes Scenario
CREW Shallow Earthquakes Scenario discusses the effects of earthquakes in shallow water and hazards to the coastline.
After the 2008 National Earthquake Conference: From Research to Resilience – What next?
After the 2008 National Earthquake Conference: From Research to Resilience – What next? (read or download this report)
From April 22-26, 2008, more than 400 people came to Seattle for the National Earthquake Conference with its theme, Understanding Earthquakes: From Research to Resilience. The five conference objectives were to: understand the research; exchange ideas about tools for earthquake hazard and risk reduction; showcase successful programs; learn from past disasters, and build resiliency. This report covers what was discussed over the three days of the conference, focusing resiliency and what we can learn from past, current and future lessons.
Cascadia Deep Earthquakes
Deep earthquakes pose a serious risk to Cascadia. In Puget Sound, for example, there is an 84% chance of a magnitude 6.5 or greater deep earthquake striking within 50 years. Beneath northwestern California, northwestern Oregon and southwestern British Columbia the probability of a similar sized earthquake over 50 years is somewhat lower, but still a major component of the earthquake hazard in each area.
This report discusses characteristics typical with earthquakes in the Cascadia region, potential hazards they cause, lessons from recent earthquakes, potential earthquakes and lessons for the future.
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).
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Post-Disaster Recovery Planning Forum: How-To Guide, Prepared by: Partnership for Disaster Resilience
Recent catastrophic disaster events remind us that many communities are vulnerable to natural hazards. The Indian Ocean basin earthquake and tsunami took over 250,000 lives and caused major disruptions in the regional and local economies. Hurricane Katrina killed over 1,200 and caused over $150 billion in reported damages to the US Gulf Coast. Both events highlight what has been known by researchers: that many costs associated with disaster events–including social and economic disruptions–are difficult to quantify but have profound, long-term impacts on a community’s ability to recover. This guide provides an approach for assisting communities in identifying issues they will face in 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 toward making your community more disaster resilient and sustainable – now and for the future.
Download Post-Disaster Recovery Planning Forum: How-To Guide, Prepared by: Partnership for Disaster ResilienceJust-in-Time Inventory: Effects on Earthquake Recovery
How long could your business survive without replenishing inventory? It’s an important question if you’re in earthquake country. This paper uses the Seattle area as a case study of how crucial it is to understand inventory and supply chain practices as part of earthquake preparation.
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Using the CREW Scenario: Three tabletop exercises
In 2005, CREW published Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes: A magnitude 9.0 earthquake scenario, a report that summarized what might happen to northwestern California, western Oregon and Washington, and southwestern British Columbia if we make no further preparations for a large earthquake. Three organizations used that scenario as a basis for their tabletop emergency exercises in 2005-06. Some of the lessons observed in the Blue Cascades III, Pacific Peril 2006 and the Cannon Beach exercises are summarized in this report.
Cannon Beach Post-Disaster Recovery Planning Forum Summary Report
CREW, as part of the Partners for Disaster Resistance & Resilience, is one of the leaders in the Long-Term Post-Disaster Recovery Planning effort to better prepare coastal communities in the Cascadia Region for the short-term recovery and long-term reconstruction efforts communities may face as a result of a catastrophic Cascadia Subduction Zone event.
Cannon Beach, Oregon served as a pilot community for a Post-Disaster Recovery Forum designed to (1) gather public input on disaster recovery issues and (2) develop potential recommendations to address those issues. The above report summarizes the findings from this forum.
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Business Survival Kit For Earthquakes & Other Disasters Video
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Earthquakes . . . terrorist attacks . . . fires. . . floods . . . storms . . . and even power outages can affect and permanently alter your business. How should you and your company prepare for such an event? Can you afford not to be ready?
Discover how major businesses survived a potentially catastrophic event like the 2001 Seattle earthquake, and the lessons a small business learned following a devastating fire. Learn from their successes and failures so you can protect your own valuable assets — people, facilities and business continuity — no matter the disaster.
In this video you’ll learn how to:
• Identify the hazards you may face.
• Plan for and reduce the impact of disaster.
• Protect your employees, facilities and contents.
• Choose the correct insurance and proper disaster supplies.
• Evacuate and communicate with employees during an event.
• Ensure business continuity after disaster strikes.
• Prevent significant business loss.Download Business Survival Kit For Earthquakes & Other Disasters Video
Open for Business: A Disaster Planning Toolkit For The Small Business Owner
Open for Business: A Disaster Planning Toolkit For The Small Business Owner from the Institute for Business and Home Safety is being made available by CREW in a writeable PDF format. This toolkit will help small business owners to:
• Identify the hazards you may face
• Plan for and reduce the impact of disasters
• Keep your doors open after a disaster hits
• Advise you on insurance, disaster supplies and the things you can do to make your business more disaster resistant
Download Open for Business: A Disaster Planning Toolkit For The Small Business Owner
CREW HAZUS CD
The CD is an upgrade for HAZUS SR-2 and allows users to incorporate revised soils data and run a Cascadia Subduction Zone Scenario for a user defined region. The CD also contains the results of event for those British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California census tracts impacted by a Cascadia Subduction Zone 8.5 earthquake. It is free to CREW members and costs $5 for non-members.
If you are a member, click on this link to email Bob Freitag and request the CD
If you are a non-member follow this link to pay through PaypalWhat Businesses Learned from the Nisqually Earthquake Of February 28, 2001
This document discusses the lessons businesses learned from the Nisqually Earthquake. It is not an in depth dissertation on the behavior of different types of quakes or buildings, but a practical look at what worked and what didn’t. It is designed to help businesses decide where to spend their resources to protect their business from the next quake. Most of the recommendations contained are what those businesses have decided to do to protect against the next event. If each business in “earthquake country”* would do just one or two of the recommendations contained within, their future earthquake damages would be reduced, their employee safety improved, and the likelihood that their business will survive enhanced.
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