Panelists were encouraged to explore how their science applies to tsunami and landslide mitigation practice. The following summarizes each panel s major conclusions and the audience s response to the technical discussions.
Earthquakes can generate many landslides.
But crustal faults in Puget Sound, the region s most frequent source of quakes, are still poorly understood, making earthquake-induced landslides and tsunamis a hazard that is likewise poorly understood. Bathymetry high resolution, multi-beam data needed to do inventories, potential slump identification, and tsunami models. Lidar used to identify faults and potential locations to investigate fault history. Emergency planners need improved ground motion estimates to use as inputs to landslide scenarios. Scientists and emergency response officials need to discuss the usefulness of probabilistic tsunami hazard maps and deterministic scenarios.