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March 10, 2015

Oregon officials consider ‘sister counties' to help coastal areas after a major quake

  • The idea is not to shift physical resources but provide public works leadership following a disaster.
    • By MARK GIBSON
    The Dalles Daily Chronicle

    THE DALLES, Ore. — Some geologists have calculated a 10 to 14 percent probability that the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Oregon and Washington coast will produce an earthquake event of magnitude 9 or higher in the next 50 years. Others suggest that this risk could be as high as 37 percent for earthquakes of magnitude 8 or higher. Such a quake could generate a 50-foot tsunami.

    Such a large earthquake would be felt in The Dalles, where residents are warned to prepare for as long as three weeks without electricity or fuel. But geologists say damage on the coast would be catastrophic, and potentially devastating in the Willamette Valley as well.


     
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