1. The Big One - California's Impending Earthquake
... world and what makes them trigger, the states of California and Oregon have to start preparing a framework of actions needed to be taken after a major disaster occurs. Oregon State has already started a pre-planning of said catastrophe. Althea Rizzo, a geologist from the Oregon Office of Emergency Management (OEM) reported that oceanic plates would build up tension and when that tension is ... relieved it would lift an enormous amount of seawater, which would slam the Oregon coast with a series of tsunamis. There are already signs on the coastline signaling precaution for tsunamis and w...
- Word Count: 1650
- Approx Pages: 7
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate