Although the 2016 Exercise has completed, these Resources & Information will remain for archival and reference purposes.

Cascadia Rising After Action Reports are available in the secure documents section of this website.

Cascadia Rising is actually the "Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) Catastropic Earthquake and Tsunami Functional Exercise 2016." Our ARES organization participated in this major exercise and the planning sessions. Preparations for this exercise began in October 2014, and continued ongoing until the actual exercise. This exercise occured the week of June 6, 2016. For an overview of the preperations, see the FEMA Overview.

These resources should be a reminder that the "big one" can occur any time. Are you prepared?

View the Tsunami Evacuation Map for Port Angeles and Vicinity

View the Clallam County Fire District Area Command Charts

The Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool - “OBSIP” Cascadia page
The Washington Guard Response Plan for the CSZ Rupture
(This is the PowerPoint presentation that Col. Braun & Sgt. Maj. Saunders presented)
Read a summary in a Sequim Gazette article.

Earthquakes: It's Not Just About the Shaking: ShakeOut website

Cascadia Rising: Lake Creek Fault presentation (notes by WX7RIK)

Liquefaction Maps for Port Angeles & Sequim
(maps supplied by the Clallam County Emergency Management office)
What is Liquefaction? Watch this Weather Channel video and look at this sketch.

Clallam County Vulnerable Populations Estimates

Reminder: Here’s a guide to earthquake preparedness from the Seattle Times

Videos about the Cascadia Fault

Here is a excellent (8-minute) video that explains much about the tectonic situation in the Pacific Northwest.	Tsunamis Generated by Megathrust Earthquakes (6-minutes)
Video: MegaQuake expected to hit North America along Cascadia line (47-minutes)

Visit the Oregon Public Broadcasting website to see their information about preparing for the Cascadia quake.

Articles about the Cascadia Fault

New Yorker article, The Really Big One, which appears to be a short summary of the book, Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
Follow-up to the above New Yorker article: How to Stay Safe When the Big One Comes
IRIS website - Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Education & Outreach

The disaster reporter feature in the FEMA App (available on Android & Apple) allows you to take GPS photos in a disaster area and upload them to FEMA.

Go to our Emergency Preparedness Information Page

Page Updated: 12/11/24