The USGS has posted a new online course titled “A Practical Guide to Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest”. The first part of the course provides an overview of the earthquake hazard in the Pacific Northwest and relevant recent earthquakes globally. The second part summarizes tools available that facilitate earthquake response. The entire course can easily be viewed in about an hour. To view this, go to http://earthquakes.usgs.gov under “Featured Items” (click on item #4) on the right side of the webpage.
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No Miracle that 99.8% of the schoolchildren survived the tsunami
Almost all the elementary and junior high school children of Kamaishi, a small coastal town in Iwate, managed to survive the tsunami. Many people said it was a miracle, but it wasn’t. The response capabilities they learned at school helped them to overcome a disaster that exceeded all worst-case scenarios.
See article here: http://wedge.ismedia.jp/articles/-/1334?page=1.