20 years ago today: 6.8 Nisqually earthquake rocked Western Washington
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People walk past the Starbucks building on 1st Ave South and survey the earthquake damage.Don Marquis/seattlepi.com fileShow MoreShow Less
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Amy Castner of Seattle works security during a windy down pour of rain at the earthquake-damaged Sodo building in Seattle on March 1, 2001, a day after the Nisqually quake.RENEE C. BYER/Renee C. Byer/seattlepi.com fileShow MoreShow Less
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The Fenix Underground building in Pioneer Square is pictured after the quake. Show MoreShow Less
5of18This previously unpublished picture from the air shows damage near Safeco Field after the Feb. 28, 2001 Nisqually earthquake.Meryl Schenker/MOHAISeattle Post-Intelligencer Collection/seattlepi.com fileShow MoreShow Less
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Davina Passeri invited to present on barrier island evolution at Deford Lecture Series Release Date:
February 25, 2021
Davina Passeri of the USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center has been invited to present a talk titled, “Modeling decadal barrier island evolution under future storms and sea level rise” at the University of Texas DeFord Lecture Series on February 25.
This model shows what Dauphin Island, Alabama, may look like under moderate storms but with increasing rates of sea level rise (Passeri and others, 2018). (Credit: RC Mickey, images. B. Boynton, animation, USGS. Public domain.)
The DeFord Lecture series at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geological Sciences is a forum for lectures by distinguished visitors and prestigious researchers from around the world. Davina’s talk will discuss her team’s work on modeling how Dauphin Island, Alabama, a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, will change under different storminess
Residents of King, Pierce and Thurston counties received a test wireless emergency alert. Author: Keely Chalmers Updated: 8:27 PM PST February 25, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. Feb. 28 marks the 20-year anniversary of the Nisqually earthquake. It was centered near Olympia, Washington, but shook much of the Pacific Northwest.
To mark that upcoming anniversary, scientists in Washington sent out a test earthquake warning alert. Residents of King, Pierce and Thurston counties received a test wireless emergency alert. It was a public demonstration of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system.
The system relies on thousands of sensors both onshore and off. When an earthquake hits, those sensors will alert us that the quake is heading our way. But, scientists stress, the alerts will give only seconds warning. But it will be enough time to drop, cover, and hold on.