# Presentation: 432852

## Oregon Tsunami Mitigation and Mapping Program FY 2006

**Jay Wilson**
- Earthquake and Tsunami Program Coordinator
- Oregon Emergency Management
- jmwilson@oem.state.or.us

**George R. Priest**, Ph.D., CEG
- Oregon Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries
- Newport Coastal Field Office
- george.priest@dogami.state.or.us

## Accomplishments

- 52 talks
- 1 Congressional testimony
- Reprint of 19 evacuation map brochures (205,000)
- Website improved and updated
- Inundation and evacuation polygons in Coastal Atlas (_[http://www.coastalatlas.net/index.asp](http://www.coastalatlas.net/index.asp)__ )_
- Evacuation time map for Seaside
- Seaside outreach project
- 100 signs for 6 towns
- Native American historical marker sign

## Native American 

- Native American
- Historical Marker
- Lincoln City, Oregon

## Evacuation Map SignforState Parks + Cities

**Evacuation Map Sign****for****State Parks + Cities**

## Slide 5

- Florence inundation map (in press).
- Discovery of “**tsunami shield**” effect
- Reedsport evacuation map
- Installation of benchmarks - Pacific City.
- 6 TsunamiReady Communities:
- Manzanita,
- Wheeler,
- Nehalem
- Lincoln City
- Rockaway Beach
- Tillamook County
- “**Neighbor-to-neighbor**” at Yachats + drill

## Centralized registration and organization by local government 

- Centralized registration and organization by local government

- 2 “Tsunami Summits”
- Cannon Beach inundation map
- TIME compiles digital elevations + bathymetry
- New Hydrodynamic models developed for tsunami
- New Cascadia sources
- 30 inundation simulations
- Review + simulation of SEATOS source
- Presentation of sources and initial results to officials
- Prepare officials for Discovery Channel fallout
- Concept proposal for Cascadia source workshop

- Consultation on Native American historical marker sign location (tribes, others)
- Alaska teletsunami documentary:
- Video equipment purchased
- Compiling contacts + historical photos
- OEM hosts GAO visit to 4 communities

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Population Exposure within Tsunami Hazard Zone (source: Nate Wood, USGS)

**Population Exposure within Tsunami Hazard Zone **(source: Nate Wood, USGS)

**SB379 Zone**:22,200 residents13,853 employees

## Economic Sensitivity within Tsunami Hazard Zone (source: Nate Wood, USGS)

**Regional Totals**
- In Hazard Zone: $1.8 billion
- City Totals: $9.5 billion
- Regional Percentage: 19%

**Regional Totals**
- In Hazard Zone: 13,853
- City Totals: 71,135
- Regional Percentage: 19%

**Regional Totals**
- In Hazard Zone: 1,674
- City Totals: 9,180
- Regional Percentage: 18%

## FY 2006 Objectives

**Tsunami Inundation Map for Pacific City**
**Evacuation Brochures**** (2 new; reprinting)**
**Outreach and Education**
**Purchase warning system equipment for local towns (EMWIN, weather radios)**
**Purchase tsunami signs**
**Install Native American Historical Marker Sign**

- Seaside outreach project transfer:
- Distribution of outreach materials
- CD mailed free (towns and lodging facilities)
- Meetings, talks,
- E-mail to all building codes officials a report summarizing tsunami aspects of the Oregon Building Code (SB 379 regulations of DOGAMI).
**TsunamiReady Support**

**Documentation of the 1964 Alaska Tsunami Impacts to the Oregon Coast**
- Inundation data points for field check of simulations
- First-hand accounts
- Produce educational video with “lessons learned”
- Published report
- FY 06 work:
- Research tsunami witnesses and historical records
- Begin interviews with witnesses
- Compile historical records (photographs, maps, reports, and articles);
- Create database.

## $274,000

- PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE
- January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2007