Crescent City CA, Example of Earthquake, Tsunami Preparedness [VIDEO]

babble.com - Posted by carolyncastiglia on March 11th, 2011 at 1:14 pm

Crescent City, CA's harbor.

The tiny municipality of Crescent City, CA is meet 1.6 conservativist miles, located 20 miles south of the Oregon border, with an period downfall average of 75 inches.  Crescent City knows how to appendage wave waves, since they’ve been impact by 31 of the giant storms since 1933.  The 1964 American seism caused 11 deaths in Crescent City, and since then, the municipality has prefabricated seism and wave state a priority.

A pamphlet published by Del Norte County details how to survive a tsunami, urging grouping to verify both uncolored and official warnings equally earnestly and to move to whichever they wager or hear first.  Natural warnings include “strong ground shaking, a loud ocean roar, or the liquid receding unusually far exposing the sea floor.”  Scientists and meteorologists hit definitely erred on the side of warn when it comes to officially warning citizens to egest before a wave as a result of the disrespectful 2004 seism and tsunamis that killed over 230,000 grouping in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.

The Superintendent of Schools in Crescent City spoke to Fox40 this morning, saying schools were winking as a safety forethought and that edifice buses were existence used to egest citizens.

Sources: Slate, CrescentCity.org

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