Join your fellow SEAW members, along with ASCE members for this joint event!
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM PST
Location: GoToWebinar
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Presentation: Earthquakes in Western Washington: History and Risk
Research on past earthquakes shows that at least 28 large earthquakes struck the Fraser-Puget Lowland over the last 16,000 years on 13 fault zones, including five reverse faults zones (Olympia, Tacoma, Seattle, Bellingham, and Boulder Creek fault zones), and four oblique fault zones (Leech River, Canyon River-Saddle Mountain, Southern Whidbey Island, Darrington-Devil’s Mountain, north Olympic fault zones). Understanding the locations of active faults, and the general history of activity, is an important aspect of most civil engineering projects.
Presenter:
Brian Sherrod is Project Chief and Pacific Northwest Regional Coordinator for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and is based out of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He received a B.S. in Geology from James Madison University in Virginia, a M.S. in Geology from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from the University of Washington. His main area of research is paleo-seismology of the Pacific Northwest – finding evidence of past earthquakes in the PNW using the geologic record. Most of his work employs airborne laser surveys – he is currently working on evidence for large earthquakes along faults in central and western Washington and coastal uplift along the Pacific and Juan de Fuca coasts of the Olympic Peninsula.
