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Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Massive rehearsal planned for mega-quake
across the coast may overwhelm the
resources of local governments.”
Whole towns along the coast may
disappear. Hospitals could either
collapse or be too severely damaged
to handle casualties.
All across the region between
the Paciic and the Cascade
Range, bridges and roads could
be destroyed, fuel supplies and
communications disrupted, and
buildings and crucial infrastructure
may sink into soil that’s been lique-
ied by the intense shaking.
The region has taken steps over
the last few years to better prepare
for the looming calamity. Schools
are being moved out of tsunami
inundation zones. Money is being
allocated for seismic retroits of
crucial structures. Tsunami evacua-
tion routes to high ground have been
identiied.
Cascadia Rising is an important
part of the planning that has picked
up pace over the past few years.
Some of the exercise will put
boots on the ground. For example,
Washington
State
National
Guardsmen will conduct a landing
on Vashon Island to rehearse delivery
of supplies with landing craft. About
2,300 National Guard soldiers are
among the 6,000 or so exercise
participants in Washington state.
Another major drill rehearses
how to get the Port of Tacoma
back into operation after it has been
devastated by a quake, using a U.S.
Army Reserve pier that consists of
a logistics support vessel, a barge
derrick crane and a large tug.
In Oregon, about 580 National
Guard soldiers are among some
1,400 Cascadia Rising participants
from across the state. Specialty
By TERRENCE PETTY
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Imagine a
devastating earthquake and tsunami
have cut off Paciic Northwest
coastal communities. Phone and
internet service have collapsed.
Ham radio operators living on the
stricken coast ire up their radios,
contact emergency managers and
report on the magnitude of the
disaster so that no time is wasted in
saving lives.
This is the kind of scenario that
will be rehearsed this week in a
massive earthquake and tsunami
readiness drill that has been devel-
oped by the U.S. government, the
military, and state and local emer-
gency managers over the past few
years to test their readiness for what
— when it strikes — will likely be
the nation’s worst natural calamity.
The June 7-10 exercise is called
Cascadia Rising. It is named after
the Cascadia Subduction Zone — a
600-mile-long fault just off the coast
that runs from Northern California
to British Columbia.
“This is the largest exercise ever
for a Cascadia break,” said Lt. Col.
Clayton Braun of the Washington
State National Guard. Braun has
been a key planner of the doomsday
drill, which is being overseen by the
Federal Emergency Management
Agency.
Federal oficials say about
20,000 people will be involved
in the disaster drill, representing
various federal agencies, the U.S.
military, state and local emergency
response managers across the
Paciic Northwest, Native American
tribes and emergency management
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Washington Air National Guard soldiers from Fairchild Air Force
Base in Spokane, Wash., work to assemble temporary living
structures at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
oficials in British Columbia.
One main goal of the exercise
is to test how well they will work
together to minimize loss of life
and damages when a mega-quake
rips along the Cascadia Subduction
Zone and unleashes a killer tsunami.
Awareness of the seismic
threat looming just off the Paciic
Northwest dates back to the 1980s,
when researchers concluded that
coastal lands long ago had been
inundated by a tsunami. Research
also indicated that a tsunami that
was documented in Japan in January
1700 originated from the Cascadia
Subduction Zone, also known as the
CSZ.
Research suggests that the CSZ
on average produces magnitude
9.0 quakes every 500 years, but big
quakes have been separated by as
few as 200 years and as many as
1,000. So it is impossible to predict
when the next monster quake
occurs. However, tectonic stresses
have been accumulating in the
CSZ for more than 300 years and
seismologists say it could rupture at
any time.
More than 8 million people live
in the area that is vulnerable to
the Cascadia Subduction Zone. It
contains the most heavily populated
areas of the Paciic Northwest,
including Seattle and Portland,
as well as Interstate 5, one of the
nation’s busiest roads.
Coastal towns are especially
at risk. Studies have forecast that
while 1,100 people could die from a
9.0 magnitude quake, 13,500 could
perish from the tsunami that would
slam into the coast within 15 to 30
minutes after the shaking begins.
A scenario document written
in preparation for Cascadia Rising
exercise states “the scale of fatalities
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The
milestone
is
expected to trigger a bitter
multi-million dollar battle
between supporters of the
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opponents from the business
community.
“The
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SALEM — The Secre-
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Monday certiied a corporate
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The Secretary of State’s
Ofice veriied and accepted
95,272 accepted of those.
Often referred to as a gross
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levy would apply to transac-
tions of certain corporations
with annual sales exceeding
$25 million. The tax would
affect less than 3 percent of
Oregon’s 30,000 corporations
but would apply to about
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according to the Legislative
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An analysis by the revenue
ofice last week showed that
the tax would generate about
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state’s budget. The study
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WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny
Partly sunny and
not as hot
99° 67°
88° 56°
THURSDAY
Not as warm; a
morning shower
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
An afternoon
shower in spots
Cloudy and
comfortable
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
80° 53°
72° 50°
67° 48°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
102° 67°
92° 56°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
100°
75°
103° (1931)
61°
51°
35° (1901)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.01"
0.35"
5.60"
4.99"
6.90"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
102°
77°
102° (2016)
58°
52°
41° (1988)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.02"
0.16"
4.25"
3.14"
5.30"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
5:06 a.m.
8:42 p.m.
8:03 a.m.
11:02 p.m.
Last
New
June 12 June 20 June 27
74° 53°
72° 50°
Seattle
83/58
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
83° 57°
July 4
Today
Spokane
Wenatchee
93/66
98/67
Tacoma
Moses
84/53
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 99/65
91/61
70/51
82/50
101/65
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
83/53
99/70 Lewiston
103/66
Astoria
98/68
68/52
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
90/61
Pendleton 90/60
The Dalles 102/67
99/67
99/66
La Grande
Salem
93/63
91/59
Albany
Corvallis 91/56
92/57
John Day
96/64
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
99/66
90/56
88/60
Caldwell
Burns
96/65
91/53
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
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Tokyo
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WINDS
Medford
98/62
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
88/52
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Sunshine and patchy
clouds today. Partly cloudy tonight. Clouds
and sun tomorrow.
Cascades: Very warm today with some sun;
an afternoon thunderstorm in the area in
the south.
Northern California: A stray thunderstorm
in the interior mountains today; clouds, then
sun at the coast. Sunshine in central parts.
Today
Wednesday
WSW 4-8
W 4-8
W 8-16
WNW 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Low clouds breaking for
some sun today. Cloudy tonight. Mostly
cloudy tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Some sun today. A
stray thunderstorm in central parts and near the
Cascades; sunshine in the upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Sunny to partly
cloudy today, but low clouds followed by
some sun at the coast.
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teams will practice their roles for the
disaster that will come. This includes
pulling people out of a pile of rubble
that simulates a collapsed building
and triaging them for medical care.
Much of Cascadia Rising will
entail civilian agencies and the
military coordinating in what will
be extremely dificult conditions.
Participants in the exercise will
contact emergency management
ofices with reports of speciic needs
during the simulated disaster. It will
be up to agencies to work together to
come up with solutions.
Amateur radio operators are also
participating in Cascadia Rising.
If internet and phone service are
severed, ham operators have the
ability to act as the eyes, ears and
messengers for emergency oficials
scrambling to igure out what they
need to do to save lives and prevent
more damage.
The region’s ham radio operators
are even able to establish email
service for emergency management
oficials, using amateur radio
frequencies to bridge the gaps.
“We can leapfrog over the
outage, to where there is still internet
activity,” said Bruce Bjerke, Oregon
section coordinator for Amateur
Radio Emergency Services, a
national non-governmental organi-
zation.
Regional and local emergency
managers are welcoming the
opportunity to rehearse a Cascadia
calamity.
“The Cascadia is relatively
new to us,” said Tiffany Brown,
emergency manager for Clatsop
County, the northernmost county on
the Oregon coast. “We’re behind in
terms of getting ready for it.”
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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warm front stationary front
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National Summary: Colin will bring morning rain to the coastal Carolinas today before
racing away from the United States. Showers and thunderstorms will dot the Great Lakes,
Northeast and Intermountain West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 110° in Tucson, Ariz.
Low 31° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Today
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77
Memphis
86
Miami
89
Milwaukee
67
Minneapolis
72
Nashville
83
New Orleans
91
New York City
85
Oklahoma City
89
Omaha
79
Philadelphia
86
Phoenix
107
Portland, ME
71
Providence
79
Raleigh
86
Rapid City
86
Reno
95
Sacramento
90
St. Louis
77
Salt Lake City
91
San Diego
71
San Francisco
72
Seattle
83
Tucson
105
Washington, DC 85
Wichita
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
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