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A huge dress rehearsal for regional earthquake disaster relief, the Cascadia Rising exercise, was scrubbed due to the ongoing pandemic. It would have involved more than 22,000 participants – chiefly U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen as well as state, local and tribal emergency planners. Some smaller drills are going ahead featuring civilian volunteers demonstrating unconventional ways aid may get to Pacific Northwest earthquake survivors.
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The earthquake early warning system known as ShakeAlert will be capable of delivering alerts directly to wireless devices in Oregon on March 11 and to…
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A massive CenturyLink internet outage knocked out 911 emergency call services across Washington state Thursday, a problem that persisted into Friday for…
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Nearly 20 percent of people in Washington and 15 percent in Oregon speak a language other than English at home. Emergency managers from around the West...
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A major earthquake-preparedness drill takes place this Saturday in Seattle. It’s called “Hubs and Spokes” and this time, the emphasis is on emergency…
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It's a question all of us face sooner or later: whether to spend a good chunk of money to protect against a catastrophe that has a very low chance of occurring. A workshop that just wrapped up in Corvallis considered that dilemma in the context of Northwest dams and a magnitude 9 earthquake.
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In the new year, Washington state is raising taxes. But you'll need sharp eyes to notice where. Lawmakers have hiked and expanded a telephone tax to…
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Washington gets a top grade for being ready to handle disasters. A new study ranks the state among the most adept a wide variety of public health threats,…