What happens when a major earthquake strikes the Pacific Northwest? A group has assessed the ability of Washington state to recover, and presented their findings in a report in February 2012.
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An earthquake is like a big finger in a spider web. Touch one spot and parts of the web far away will move.
Dan Dolan has been pondering just how far away in the hopes that the web of our state’s vast institutional infrastructure doesn’t snap under the strain. Dolan, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, looked at how we might respond to and recover from damage to the state’s building and housing stock as part of the Resilient Washington State Initiative, a multifaceted assessment of the ways an earthquake can hurt us and how hard it will be to recover.
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