“The people I talk to who say ‘I’ve been through 3 earthquakes; my house is fine’… [I say] your house has been through 3 moderate earthquakes. The big earthquakes will be a different event entirely,”
Tuesday, Feb. 28, marks the 22-year anniversary of the damaging Nisqually earthquake rattling western Washington.
Most of our populated areas have a 40-80% chance of a large earthquake happening in the next 50 years, the second highest level of risk in the United States, according to the state Department of Natural Resources. Leif Jackson estimates out of the more than 950,000 homes in King County, at least 400,000 need retrofitting, and he says the time to get it done is now.
“A lot of our homes [in Seattle] cost a million dollars. A $10,000 retrofit is 1% of that,” Jackson said.
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