Oregon Emergency Management Geologic Hazards Coordinator Althea Rizzo and other state agency experts will be holding preparedness workshops concerning tsunamis and earthquakes in several Oregon communities in March 2013. For more information visit the OEM Road Show Page

2013 Road Show Video

Tsunami Awareness Events Planned For Oregon Coast

2012 Road Show Slides. 

• Tsunami Vertical Evacuation: Lessons Learned from Japan December 9, 2011 
  
• Magnitude 9.0 Paradigm Shift: Post-Disaster Reconnaissance of Tohoku, Japan

• General information on Tsunamis in Oregon 
• Oregon Tsunami Evacuation Brochures 
• Impact of Tsunamis on Oregon Coastal Communities

• Tsunami Awareness in Oregon (brochure)
• Tommy Tsunami Coloring Book from NOAA
• Seismic Event Guidebook (Mass Media Binder)
• Living on Shaky Ground. (Espanol) This useful magazine will help you and your family learn how to prepare for earthquakes and tsunamies in Oregon.
• Go-Kit Passport, (Espanol)
  • Use this passport to create a record of your important information. Keep current medical and communication information in one easy-to-find location with your emergency go-kit.  
• Oregon ShakeOut Posters

Oregon Emergency Management is established a Distant Tsunami Response Working Group to create a standardized response to a distant tsunami on the Oregon coast. The goal of this group was to look at current processes and produce recommendations for state agencies and local communities to better react to a distant tsunami warning, watch or advisory. 

Working Group Materials: 
Local Planning Guidance on Distant Tsunami Response

Next Meeting:  
Available soon  
 
Support Materials:

• Tsunami Response Plan (San Luis Obispo)  
• Emergency Response Plan – Tsunami Annex (San Francisco)   

 
Oregon Senate Bill 557

• Enrolled Senate Bill 557 
• Senate Bill 557 Working Team
• SB 557 minutes 08-28-06
• SB 557 minutes 09-20-06
• SB 557 minutes 12-01-06
• Senate Bill 557 Survey Results - February 2007

• West Coast / Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
• National Weather Service Tsunami Centers
• NOAA Tsunami Program Page
• National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
• Tsunami Ready Community Program

• GAO Report: U.S. Tsunami Preparedness
• US House Science Committee Tsunami Testimony – J. Wilson
• OEM June 14 2005 After Action Report