The exercise reinforced for Oregon Office of Emergency Management Director Andrew Phelps how long it might take for quake relief to reach people in disaster-stricken parts of Oregon and Washington state. So, we’re going to have to make hard decisions.” “Our priority is lifesaving and life sustaining, as always. “What we’re doing right now is critical,” Nunn said. Nunn said walking through the earthquake and tsunami response in detail, technically known as a “Rehearsal of Concept,” should yield learnings that will be incorporated into an updated federal Cascadia Subduction Zone plan. “We’ve got the experts down there right now talking about what’s real, how long it’s going to take, what roads may be available, what’s not available,” said FEMA Regional Administrator Willie Nunn, looking down on the exercise from an overhead balcony. Federal Emergency Management Agency and military officials offered possible solutions such as deploying Army logistics battalions. Planners moved stanchions representing resources such as search and rescue, security and air support across a basketball court-sized map of Oregon, Washington and Idaho.įrom tables arranged around the map’s perimeter, state emergency management leaders raised questions about the capacity of proposed staging areas, typically east of the Cascade Range.
#PACIFIC NORTHWEST EARTHQUAKE MOVIE#
The disaster response exercise at the Washington National Guard’s Camp Murray near Tacoma resembled something out of a war games movie or a giant game of Risk.
The exercise assumed “lots and lots of destruction” in Western Oregon and Washington, including blockages on Interstate 5 and buckled highways to the east.
#PACIFIC NORTHWEST EARTHQUAKE FULL#
Close to 200 federal, state and tribal emergency preparedness planners gathered around a giant map of the Pacific Northwest this week to rehearse and critique the federal response plan for “The Big One.” The three-day Cascadia earthquake discussion exercise partially replaced a much bigger planned dress rehearsal that was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.Įither way, the scenario was the same: a Magnitude 9.0 full rip of the offshore Cascadia fault zone followed by a tsunami.
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