Ready for the Big One? Your earthquake questions, answered

October 18, 2018 / 5:36 pm

caption: The Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of North America can produce earthquakes as large as Magnitude 9 and corresponding tsunamis.

Kim Malcolm talks with Bill Steele to answer listener questions about earthquake preparedness in the Puget Sound Region.

Steele is a seismologist for the University of Washington's Pacific Seismic Network.

This story was inspired by questions from KUOW listeners. What do you wonder about the Puget Sound region? Let us know.

Listen to the interview by clicking the play button above.

Me and @KUOW News Director @jacksonjk under the Marconi Conference Room table, huddled and happy not to have been pretend-crushed in the Great Washington Shakeout earthquake drill. “Drop, Cover, Hold”!! pic.twitter.com/yufCYMA4k9
— Caryn Mathes (@RocknGM) October 18, 2018

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