By John Cornelison on
6/7/2017 9:44 AM
![The Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of North America spans from northern California to southern British Columbia.](https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1459793872818-e5eb3428c609347ac6694298128b8d42/map_cascadia_subduction_zone_medium.jpg)
SEATTLE – A year following one of the nation’s largest domestic drills, lessons-learned continue to guide strategies that improve the Pacific Northwest’s ability to survive and recover from a catastrophic Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquake and tsunami.
On June 7, 2016, more than 20,000 emergency managers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington kicked off Cascadia Rising 2016, a four-day, large scale exercise to test response and recovery capabilities in the wake of a 9.0 magnitude CSZ earthquake and tsunami. The exercise involved local, state, tribal and federal partners,...