The evacuation maps for coastal communities ... “Their goal is to map the whole shoreline of Washington for tsunami hazards,” Smillie said in an interview. It’s unclear when the project ...

A recent Virginia Tech study reveals that the Pacific Northwest faces a heightened risk of catastrophic flooding and mega-tsunamis, potentially reaching 1,000 feet. The Cascadia Subduction Zone's ...

A tsunami evacuation route sign ... The Washington State Emergency Management Division has a complete map of sirens across Washington’s coast as well as playable audio of what a tsunami siren ...

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s ...

“In Washington, most people who actually live in the tsunami inundation zone don’t have any high ground nearby,” Allen said. In that case, vertical evacuation structures built within the ...

the map colors are different, demarcating distant tsunami evacuation zones from local zones. What’s shown in green is outside a hazard area. Up the coast, Washington has hazard maps made for ...

It took a bit longer to hit the lower 48, reaching Washington in ... of inundation of a Cascadia tsunami. There were multiple reasons for the confusion and over-evacuation on Dec. 5.