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*AN EARTHQUAKE IN THE CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE
WOULD LEAD TO FLOODING DEPTHS TO REACH OR EXCEED
SIXTY FEET ALONG MOST PACIFIC COAST BEACHES.
THE TSUMANI WOULD MOVE QUICKLY ALONG THE COAST.
FIRST WAVES WOULD ARRIVE AT LA PUSH IN TEN MINUTES.
TEN MINUTES LATER, NEAH BAY, MOCLIPS AND COPALIS BEACH
TEN MINUTES MORE TO CLALLAM BAY, AND FIRST WAVES ARE
EXPECTED TO HIT PORT ANGELES A HALF HOUR LATER.
*D-N-R MODELS SHOW AN WIDE RANGE OF INUNDATION,
WITH THE HIGHEST FLOOD LEVELS OF ABOUT ONE HUNDRED FEET
SEEN WEST OF OZETTE LAKE AT YELLOW BANKS BEACH.
AT THE LOWER HOH TRIBAL CENTER THE TSUMAMI FLOODING
LEVEL WOULD BE FORTY-THREE FEET.
EXPECT TO BE CUT OFF FROM THE OUTSIDE SUPPLIES AS
SEVERAL SECTIONS OF STATE ROUTE ONE-TWELVE AND
HIGHWAY ONE-OH-ONE WOULD BE MADE IMPASSIBLE.
THE LAST CASCADIA RUPTURE WAS THREE HUNDRED
TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO.
*EXPERTS SAY THE PROBABILITY OF SUCH AN EARTHQUAKE
IN THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS IS TEN TO SEVENTEEN PERCENT.
https://www.dnr.wa.gov/news/new-study-details-tsunami-impacts-magnitude-90-earthquake-olympic-peninsula
Image credit:
This new study and maps are available alongside more tsunami information online at:
https://fortress.wa.gov/dnr/geologydata/tsunami_hazard_maps/ger_ms2022-01_tsunami_hazard_olympic_peninsula.zip (88.7 MB zip file)
WOULD LEAD TO FLOODING DEPTHS TO REACH OR EXCEED
SIXTY FEET ALONG MOST PACIFIC COAST BEACHES.
THE TSUMANI WOULD MOVE QUICKLY ALONG THE COAST.
FIRST WAVES WOULD ARRIVE AT LA PUSH IN TEN MINUTES.
TEN MINUTES LATER, NEAH BAY, MOCLIPS AND COPALIS BEACH
TEN MINUTES MORE TO CLALLAM BAY, AND FIRST WAVES ARE
EXPECTED TO HIT PORT ANGELES A HALF HOUR LATER.
*D-N-R MODELS SHOW AN WIDE RANGE OF INUNDATION,
WITH THE HIGHEST FLOOD LEVELS OF ABOUT ONE HUNDRED FEET
SEEN WEST OF OZETTE LAKE AT YELLOW BANKS BEACH.
AT THE LOWER HOH TRIBAL CENTER THE TSUMAMI FLOODING
LEVEL WOULD BE FORTY-THREE FEET.
EXPECT TO BE CUT OFF FROM THE OUTSIDE SUPPLIES AS
SEVERAL SECTIONS OF STATE ROUTE ONE-TWELVE AND
HIGHWAY ONE-OH-ONE WOULD BE MADE IMPASSIBLE.
THE LAST CASCADIA RUPTURE WAS THREE HUNDRED
TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO.
*EXPERTS SAY THE PROBABILITY OF SUCH AN EARTHQUAKE
IN THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS IS TEN TO SEVENTEEN PERCENT.
https://www.dnr.wa.gov/news/new-study-details-tsunami-impacts-magnitude-90-earthquake-olympic-peninsula
Image credit:
This new study and maps are available alongside more tsunami information online at:
https://fortress.wa.gov/dnr/geologydata/tsunami_hazard_maps/ger_ms2022-01_tsunami_hazard_olympic_peninsula.zip (88.7 MB zip file)