Paci-Green presents disaster scenario document looking at potential PNW earthquake

Rebekah Paci-Green, assistant professor of Environmental Studies and associate director of the Resilience Institute at Western Washington University, will present Cascadia Rising, a 182-page exercise scenario document detailing the impacts of a major Pacific Northwest earthquake and tsunami, to more than 330 state, local, private and non-profit sector representatives on Jan. 15 and 20.

The presentation comes after six months of working with FEMA Region 10 to synthesize the most recent research and modeling of a magnitude 9.0 Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami.