Abcarian: Here's one more thing to worry about — tsunamis
Joseph Riser, spokesman for the department, counted the five-week, $250,000 federally funded campaign, which ended last week, as a success because there were 10 times the number of new registrations for the alerts compared with a “normal, blue sky month.”scores the risk of earthquakes at 100%, wildfires at 99% and tsunamis at 63%.
According to the California Geological Survey, more than 150 tsunamis have hit our coast since 1800, though only a dozen or so have caused death or significant damage, most notably in 1964 when a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska generated 21-foot Pacific Ocean surges that crashed into Crescent City, killing 10 people and destroying most of the waterfront.
“When there is an earthquake in one part of the world, like Japan, we start to pay attention in California,” Gonzalez told me. Signing up for alerts, and understanding what to do if you get one, makes sense. In Venice, residents are told to go east as fast as they can, and probably on foot, because roadways are likely to be jammed.
“Some people had to be rescued,” said Rick Wilson, head of the California Geological Survey’s tsunami program, inpresented by the Earthquake Engineering Institute. “We always get surfers that try to surf the tsunami.”
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