Pacific Northwest Prepares for 'Big One'

摘要

An unprecedented public-private partnership in the Pacific Northwest is tackling the region's most unsettling scenario-a magnitude 9.0 earthquake along the Pacific Ocean's 800-mile Cascadia sub-duction zone that would affect Vancouver, Canada, to San Francisco. The goal is to craft a coordinated and interdependent disaster response plan from myriad self-contained plans. The action plan, intended as a model for regional disaster response regardless of the trigger, will be shared with other areas.