Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest.

[ErikJ]

I'm reading her book now. Very well researched and extremely interesting.

Published on Nov 23, 2013
Sandi Doughton is an award-winning science writer for The Seattle Times and the author of Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. During the more than 20 years she has lived in the Pacific Northwest, her reporting has taken her to the Bering Sea, where she covered climate change and chased seals over pancake ice, and to Africa, where she tracked the Gates Foundation's efforts to develop a malaria vaccine. But earthquake science is her favorite subject, because it's a great example of the way research can make a real difference to society and in people's lives.

[KT2000]

1. does the book make you

want to prepare your survival kit? NW Washington here and some people here are getting prepared now.

[ErikJ]

3. Actually I'm almost ready to move.

I sold the house and bought a small motorhome. I'd rather not be here when it happens. But for those who stay it might be smart to buy a small used trailer or self-contained RV and have it ready to live in because most utilities will be totally lost including water. Especially if you live in an older house or building more than 20 yrs old.

[catbyte]

2. I read it a few months ago. Very well-written and accessible.

[yuiyoshida]

4. Tokyo NPO founder shows foreign residents how to survive disasters

Motoko Kimura explains her earthquake seminars in an interview with The Japan Times in Tokyo on July 22. | YOSHIAKI MIURA

No one can truly be prepared for a calamity like the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, even for Japanese who have gone through disaster drills regularly since childhood to learn how to react.

But for non-Japanese residents who don’t speak the language, the experience could be horrifying, not being able to understand news or instructions provided at evacuation centers that may prove critical to survival.

And that was exactly what Motoko Kimura, 37, witnessed during the unprecedented quake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in March 2011, where damage in the Tokyo metropolitan area was minor compared with hard-hit Tohoku but fear was sky high.

“Even foreigners who used Japanese on a daily basis were in fear, as they had no idea where to get information and trouble understanding what was reported on TV as the sirens blared outside,” Kimura recalled.

This prompted Kimura, then a Japanese-language teacher on maternity leave, to get together with friends to launch a disaster-preparedness workshop in English for foreign residents in May 2011, offering practical tips on how to react when the next big quake strikes.

more..http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/31/national/tokyo-npo-founder-shows-foreign-residents-survive-disasters/

[Helen Borg]

5. On to Mars!

[mnhtnbb]

6. We were in California and the PNW in August and I was more than a little concerned

that the Big One that is overdue for California--or the PNW--would strike while we were there.

I'm glad to be home where we only worry about hurricanes!