November 27, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 3A
Tsunami awareness meeting focuses on hospitality
By Cynthia Washicko
EO Media Group
The emphasis was on com-
munication at a meeting for
hospitality business owners
and employees on keeping
visitors to the coast of Oregon
informed about the dangers of
a tsunami.
The Nov. 2 meeting, host-
ed by Karen Parmelee, Geo-
Hazards Awareness Coordi-
nator for the Oregon Of¿ce
of Emergency Management,
is part the OEM’s newly
launched “Tsunami Safe:
Hospitality Begins with Safe-
ty” program. Jon Rahl, assis-
tant general manager for the
City of Seaside Visitors Bu-
reau, and Planning Director
Kevin Cupples were among
those in attendance.
The program calls for
training for management and
staff, tsunami awareness ed-
ucation for employees and
the dissemination of tsuna-
mi awareness information
to guests in order to prepare
workers and visitors for a
Cascadia Subduction Zone
earthquake and possible tsu-
nami. So far around 30 hotels
along the Oregon coast are
participating in the program,
Parmelee said.
“The big thing really is,
just open that dialogue. As
there’s even more talk about
Cascadia, the reality is more
people are aware of it so our
visitors to our coast are going
to say, ‘Do you guys know
what to do?’” Parmelee said.
Preparing hotels
The roughly 600-mile long
Cascadia Subduction Zone
runs from British Columbia
down to Northern California,
and lies about 70 to 100 miles
off the Oregon coast. The
zone is capable of producing
large-magnitude earthquakes
— possibly more than a mag-
nitude 9.0 — and the shaking
from those earthquakes could
produce a tsunami similar to
the one that hit the coast of Ja-
pan in 2011. There is a 37 per-
cent chance that a Cascadia
Subduction Zone earthquake
will occur in the next 50 years,
according to the presentation.
The presentation included
advice for hospitality business
owners and staff on how to
communicate necessary infor-
mation to their guests about
what to do and where to go if
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Karen Parmelee, a GeoHazards Awareness Coordinator with
the Oregon Office of Emergency Management, presents in-
formation on the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and
the hazards that could result from it.
“It is de¿nitely about the
con¿dence of the employees,
because if the employees ar-
en’t comfortable talking about
it, that fear is going to eke out
into the guests as well,” Par-
melee said.
Spence Barker, a chauffeur
with the Cannery Pier said
that he and some other em-
ployees were heading to the
hotel after the meeting to walk
the path they would take if
they needed to evacuate after
an earthquake. Barker added
that he and his fellow employ-
ees were trying to determine
how long it would take to get
to high ground, and what they
might have to navigate around
if the bridge near the hotel is
down.
Don West, general man-
ager at the Cannery Pier hotel
and owner of Astoria Crest
Hotel, was concerned not only
with what should be done di-
rectly after the earthquake and
tsunami.
an earthquake were to occur
during their stay.
Options to convey that in-
formation to guests included
using avenues like printed key
cards or Àiers in hotel lobbies
and rooms with evacuation
maps and other information.
In Seaside, upward of
10 hotels have opted to use
sleeves for key cards printed
with information and graphics
detailing what to do during
and after an earthquake, Rahl
said. The city originally print-
ed 52,000 of the sleeves, and
has distributed more than
30,000 of them to local hotels
so far, he said.
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Ensuring hospitality em-
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“I’m thinking, we do a
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then what?” West said. “They
do have plans, so I need to
¿nd out more about it so that
we know.”
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The point of making guests
aware of the possible hazards
of an earthquake and tsunami
isn’t to scare them, Parmelee
said, but to keep them pre-
pared in case a disaster does
strike. She added that, of the
hotels who have implement-
ed the practices of informing
guests of the hazards, very
few have reported losing
guests as a result.
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