I am woefully unprepared for an earthquake. This is a problem because all three UW campuses are near a surface fault. And as the infamous New Yorker article warned, “we now know that the odds of the big Cascadia earthquake happening in the next fifty years are roughly one in three. The odds of the [...]

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Imagine this… It’s a nice warm Tuesday in the spring. Suddenly, staff, students, and faculty on campus experience a magnitude 7.5 earthquake along the Seattle fault line. The strong shaking sends landslides along I-405 and State Route 522, stranding motorists. Over 50% of the residents in Bothell and Woodinville are without power, and a water [...]

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