When tsunami hits coast, fishing boats may save lives: The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.: "NEWPORT — When the big one hits — a giant earthquake that crumbles bridges and roadways and the giant tsunami that comes rumbling behind it, knocking down buildings and flooding the beachfront communities that line the Oregon Coast — there won’t be much anybody can do to help, at least not for a while.
A Cascadia Subduction Zone quake, with an expected magnitude of 9.0 or greater, will cripple initial emergency response efforts and may cut off access to the coast altogether, before even the first powerful waves arrive on shore to turn towns into frigid, debris-ridden soup."
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