{"id":5779,"date":"2011-04-07T18:24:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T01:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2011-04-08T01:27:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T08:27:02","slug":"notes-from-behind-the-news-hello-people-we-live-in-the-ring-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=5779","title":{"rendered":"Notes from behind the news: Hello people; we live in the Ring of Fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter
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\nCounty officials really, really want citizens to listen up.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Lewis County Emergency Management sent out a news release reminding folks the Pacific Northwest is vulnerable to same type of massive earthquake which hit Japan last month.<\/p>\n

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Drop, cover and hold<\/p><\/div>\n

Their message was accompanied by a call for the public to take part in a statewide “Drop, cover and hold” earthquake drill the morning of April 20.<\/p>\n

“More than 90 percent of the world’s total earthquakes and 80 percent of the world’s destructive earthquakes happen in the ‘Ring of Fire’ (a horseshoe-shaped zone of volcanic and seismic activity that coincides roughly with the Pacific Ocean borders),” a news release from Emergency Management stated. “Both Japan and our area area included in the Ring of Fire.”<\/p>\n

On Monday, county commissioners proclaimed April disaster preparedness month, noting among other things that members of the public should prepare themselves to be self-sufficient for at least three days following a natural or man-made disaster.<\/p>\n

And yesterday, Sgt. Ross McDowell, deputy director of Lewis County Emergency Management, arranged for a 3.4 magnitude earthquake to strike in East Lewis County near Mount Rainier.<\/p>\n

The 10:45 a.m. trembler was 17 miles east of Ashford – according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network – and it was felt in places such as Morton, Randle, Packwood and even Yakima Portland and Edmonds, according to McDowell.<\/p>\n

It was relatively shallow, at four and a half miles deep, but it was one of the largest in the zone on the past 10 to 15 years, McDowell noted.<\/p>\n

“It is advisable to take the recent Japan earthquake seriously and improve emergency preparedness at home and at work,” McDowell wrote in a news release today.<\/p>\n

Okay, of course McDowell didn’t really cause the earth to move, but I think he’s making some good points. And his tone is quite serious.<\/p>\n

That Ring of Fire information got my attention.<\/p>\n

Other passages from the four-plus pages of information distributed by Emergency Management between Friday and today: “Sooner or later … A massive quake will hit the Pacific Northwest.” and “The region has been relatively lucky in the last several decades …”<\/p>\n

I think McDowell would like people to review this page, about “Drop, cover and hold”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some of the other advice McDowell passes along can be found at www.ready.gov<\/a> – Get a kit. Make a plan. Be informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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