What's the ONE THING You Can Do To Survive a Tsunami? Cascadia Subduction Zone

I have friends and relatives in a part of Thailand that was struck by the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. The advice they gave me: make sure you and your loved ones have agreed on a place to meet up when the shaking stops. The top of a hill, for example. The idea is that rather than running around town trying to find each other, everyone runs to the hill and you meet up there. It greatly increases everyone's chances of survival. The only scary part is that you have to trust everyone to stick to the plan and get there (in time). The locals there remind each other every single day at breakfast: "If there's an earthquake, I'll see you at the top of the hill." It may seem excessive, but it's a small thing and it could save you and your loved ones.

practicing is great, but i think people dont realize that if a real tsunami threat hits the west coast, everyone will hit the road with their cars, and since the US is car-centric, huge chance everyone will be stuck in traffic trying to evacuate. practice alternate path to safety rather than using the main roads.

Lahaina traffic jams prevented evacuation from the wildfire. A lot of these cities on the coast have the same, one road in, one road out set up.

I am in Canada and we are in total denial about this. Zero prep for this major danger and no conversation. But I really appreciate your excellent video and helping to spread awareness. Thank you!

5:15 The records of the Orphan Tsunami is actually how we Americans have the specific date. As a resident of the PacNW, it is AMAZING to comb through Native American stories and find oral-history-records of earthquakes, landslides, etc that have actually occurred. Hope everyone is getting a disaster kit started!

"Ignorance is bliss, but is it best?" Thanks for that.

Omg I had no idea they had vertical evacuation centers that's absolutely amazing to me come on we need more of those in every single coastal town

after the lessons learnt from the 2004 and 2011 tsunamis I hope everyone in the Pacific Northwest takes this video to heart. I'm from Thailand, and remember the 2004 tsunami very well. We had no idea what was happening. When the water receded people were walking down to check out the exposed coral reefs. We've come a long way since then.

As someone who's moving to Newport (the place in this video with the big beautiful bridge and apparently a VERTICAL EVACUATION STRUCTURE!) the "ignorance is bliss" part of me didn't want to watch this, but the "better to be safe than sorry" part of me required me to watch this. Glad I did!

I was in Singapore that Boxing Day almost 20 years ago. So many aid agencies were redeployed to Aceh in the days and weeks afterward. I went a couple of months later to help clean wells. I'll always take the danger of tsunamis seriously.

I have family in Florence, Oregon. You scrape your foot on the ground hard enough and ocean water starts to bubble up. When Cascadia goes off, the coastline will drop apprx 13ft due to soil liquefaction.....you add a 50ft or higher wall of water.....If you live in these areas, figure out the highest point, if there is one!

Being 12 hours from the ocean is the one thing I can do

No place is safe. I live on the edge of the Great Plains, in Arkansas, where tornados start flexing. With a daughter living on the wrond side of Lake Michigan, where it gets -35° with a wind to match. Or my oldest daughter who lives on the Gulf Coast and has tropical storms regularly. Love, live, and try your best; it's all you can do.

In the US some emergency alerts notify every phone in the area, but many/most require signing up. Every second can make a difference. Please sign up for any alerts available in your area.

I used to live in the PNW and being a bit of a natural disaster/geology nerd, I had read all the books on the possible dangers of the region. I sincerely hope that many many decades go by before a serious event, but I'm also glad to not need to worry about it. Instead, I can enjoy the slow motion disaster of the megadrought in the southwest!

I watched a lot of the Japanese tsunami videos from 2011, and it seems that most big concrete buildings were the safest place to go where people couldn't make it to high ground. Places that had several levels like schools, office buildings, malls and such.

I live in Cannon Beach, Oregon. The complacency is shocking. There seems to be a very strong [insert fingers in ears] la la la la la inertia to do nothing to prepare ... while at the same time deluding themselves that they are prepared. (It's actually a fascinating phenomenon.)

Tsunami warning with earthquake: "When it's long or strong, get gone."

I live outside Portland Oregon. This is really good information to have. I’m sharing with loved ones who live in Seaside and Seattle.

If you haven't heard of him, Nick Zentner has some amazing lectures on PNW geology, and he's great to listen to!