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The mission of the Washington Geological Survey (WGS) is to collect, develop, use, distribute, and preserve geologic information to promote the safety, health, and welfare of the citizens, protect the environment, and support the economy of Washington. In order to do this, WGS works with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Washington to model the inundation (flooding) of coastal areas from tsunamis. From these models the WGS produces tsunami inundation maps to communicate the hazard identified in these models to emergency management, planners, and the public to prepare for the next event in Washington. The WGS works with the Washington Emergency Management Division and local, county, tribal, and other planners and emergency managers to develop, publish, and distribute pedestrian evacuation maps, and evacuation brochures. These maps and brochures are made for areas that are especially at risk for damaging tsunamis. This feature class contains a polygon of areas that are modeled to be inundated by tsunami waves for a given earthquake scenario. These polygons were modified with ArcGIS's default smoothing algorithms then manually spot checked and corrected as needed. |
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The mission of the Washington Geological Survey (WGS) is to collect, develop, use, distribute, and preserve geologic information to promote the safety, health, and welfare of the citizens, protect the environment, and support the economy of Washington. In order to do this, WGS works with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Washington to model the inundation (flooding) of coastal areas from tsunamis. From these models the WGS produces tsunami inundation maps to communicate the hazard identified in these models to emergency management, planners, and the public to prepare for the next event in Washington. The WGS works with the Washington Emergency Management Division and local, county, tribal, and other planners and emergency managers to develop, publish, and distribute pedestrian evacuation maps, and evacuation brochures. These maps and brochures are made for areas that are especially at risk for damaging tsunamis. This feature class contains a polygon of areas that are modeled to be inundated by tsunami waves for a given earthquake scenario. These polygons were modified with ArcGIS's default smoothing algorithms then manually spot checked and corrected as needed. |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The mapped hazard areas are a compilation of the maximum modeled tsunami inundation (flooding), gathered from multiple tsunami hazard publications and represents multiple earthquake scenarios. Depending on location, this may be either an offshore earthquake from the Cascadia subduction zone or local crustal faults within Puget Sound.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The Washington Geological Survey (WGS) shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. This product is provided 'as is' without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular use. The Washington State Department of Natural Resources and the authors of this product will not be liable to the user of this product for any activity involving the product with respect to the following: (a) lost profits, lost savings, or any other consequential damages; (b) the fitness of the product for a particular purpose; or (c) use of the product or results obtained from use of the product. Although these data have been processed successfully on computers of WGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by WGS regarding the use of these data on any other system, nor does the fact of distribution constitute or imply any such warranty.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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