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Cascadia quake losses would be staggering

OFF INDIAN ISLAND, Wash. – The USNS Bob Hope, a massive cargo ship like the one that could be sent to the Northwest after a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, waits to deliver more supplies to part of the Cascadia Rising exercise (Jim Camden / The Spokesman-Review)

The figures for projected loss in the first hour of a massive Cascadia Subduction Zone quake and tsunami are staggering. Almost nearly as staggering, the kind of support the nation could muster in the ensuing weeks and months for rescue, resupply and rehabilitation. As federal, state, tribal and local military and civilian emergency management teams began their second day of Cascadia Rising, a multistate drill to practice their responses to 9.0 earthquake and the tsunami it would generate, Lt. Col. Clay Braun of the Washington National Guard laid out the experts’ best estimates of the aftermath./ Jim Camden , SR. More here .

Question: Would you move inland?

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