For those of us who call Oregon home, a threat lurks off our coast: the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Earthquake.
It’s not a matter of if — it’s when. The Oregon Department of Emergency Management reports there is a strong chance of a magnitude 7.1 or greater quake hitting our region within the next 50 years. When it happens, water systems not built to modern seismic standards will suffer or worse, become inoperable…