City of Eureka Hosting Tsunami Preparedness Workshop for Businesses in the Tsunami Zone
Press release from the City of Eureka:
The City of Eureka is inviting businesses located within the tsunami zone to participate in a Tsunami Preparedness Workshop on Monday, April 20, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Eureka Wharfinger Building (1 Marina Way).
This appointment-only workshop is designed for businesses operating in at-risk areas. Each participant will meet one-on-one with an expert to develop a customized tsunami preparedness plan tailored to their location and operations.
Not sure if your business is in the tsunami zone? Check here: https://rctwg.humboldt.edu/ or contact
us and we’re happy to help.
Eureka’s coastal location makes it vulnerable to locally generated tsunamis, which can arrive within minutes after a major earthquake. Businesses in the tsunami zone play a critical role in protecting employees, customers, and the broader community. Local experts from Humboldt Bay Fire, Eureka Police Department, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) will be just a few of the participating experts.
Participants will leave with a clear, step-by-step plan, materials to share with employees, and the option to register their plan with the City to support coordinated response during an emergency.
Participation is by appointment only. To reserve and coordinate a time slot, please email [email protected].
This will be the first in a series of workshops, with additional opportunities offered in the future.
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LOL……….A smart business would move to Henderson Center or Fortuna.
Even that isn’t a guarantee as it’s a long gentle slope up to it from downtown. The run up might make it there too. Cutten is pretty safe. Pine Hill is safe-er. Fortuna is fine but the levee by Riverwalk could be breeched if one came while it was flooded and at high tide, but that’s so far remote a thing as to not worry that much about it. Humboldt Hill folks could watch and laugh at the rest of them.
Not said is the Bayshore Mall and all the jibber jabbering about putting all the social services there and a ton of affordable housing on top of fill dirt that used to be a mill and who knows what else in the soil under the parking lot. If the tsunami doesn’t drown people, the new cancer clusters in 20 years will. Choose your own misadventure.
IMHO:
It was a PALCO Redwood drying/resaw/planing operation.
No added chemicals. Didn’t need them for Redwood.
Some chemicals (dip tanks) were used to treat green Douglas-fir for mold and fungus protection. That was probably beginning in the early 1960’s (I’m not sure on the timeline).
— aside
Hmm… see that bluff along south Eureka (and North Eureka too) ?
The lower flat was all tidelands/swamp along that stretch after the last subduction zone earthquake. (320 years ago).
Portions of the coastline dropped during that quake. (5 to 6 feet)
In the centuries after the quake, the ground gains elevation.
And then it drops in the next quake.
Most ‘educated’ planners know this. Eureka planners don’t… or just ignore it.
Now they worry about tsunami… but not the ground elevation change.
BTW: The next quake is overdue for us.
“Choose your own misadventure.”
An absolutely perfect motto for trying to survive living in Humboldt County.