BAKER COUNTY CITIZENS AND BUSINESSES ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GREAT OREGON SHAKEOUT, 10/16/14 AT 10:16 A.M. (10.05.14 - Baker County) Baker County Emergency Management is urging citizens and businesses to register and participate in the 2014 Great Oregon Shakeout. While the potential earthquake hazards depend upon your location, you could be anywhere when an earthquake strikes- at home, at work, at school or even on vacation. What we do now will determine our quality of life after our next big earthquake. Are you prepared to survive and recover quickly? The Great Oregon ShakeOut is an annual opportunity to practice how to be safer during big earthquakes: Drop, Cover and Hold On. The ShakeOut has also been organized to encourage you, your community, your school, or your organization to review and update emergency preparedness plans and supplies, and to secure your space in order to prevent damage and injuries. Registration totals from Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills across the U.S. are also included in Americas PrepareAthon! participation totals. The Great Oregon ShakeOut website has several tools and information sheets for your type of community group, family or business that you can use to create a drill or take preparedness steps. There are over 1000 earthquakes over magnitude 1.0 in Washington and Oregon every year, with at least two dozen being large enough to be felt. Approximately 17 people have lost their lives due to earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest. Since 1872, there have been 20 damaging earthquakes in Washington and Oregon. The Pacific coast poses special risk from tsunamis associated with a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. In addition to Subduction zone earthquakes, Oregon is also susceptible to crustal earthquakes. The two largest earthquakes in recent years in Oregon, Scotts Mills, (magnitude 5.6) and the Klamath Falls, main shocks (magnitude 5.9 and magnitude 6.0) of 1993 were crustal earthquakes. To register or learn more go to shakeout.org/oregon
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 01:22:10 +0000
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