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BE PREPARED! How to help with tsunami awareness in your community Assemble emergency kits with at least a 2-week supply • Start a tsunami buddy system WHAT TO DO for both local for each family member: • Make and distribute emergency packs Climb to Assembly and distant tsunamis • Local map showing safe evacuation routes to high ground • Initiate or participate in a local preparedness program Area A 1. Evacuate on foot, if at all possible. • First-aid supplies, prescriptions and non-prescription Visit OregonTsunami.org to find more great resources! medication Follow evacuation signs and arrows • Water bottle and filtration or treatment supplies to an Assembly Area.* capable of providing 1 gallon per person per 2. If you need help evacuating, tie something • Non-perishable food (ready-to-eat meals, (sheet or towel) to the front door knob. Make it large canned food, baby food, energy bars) enough to be visible from the street. If the emergency is a • Cooking and eating utensils, can opener, Sterno® distant tsunami, then help may arrive. In the event of a local or other heat source tsunami, it is unlikely that anyone will help you, so make a plan • Matches in water-proof container or lighter and be prepared! • Shelter (tent), sleeping bags, blankets • Portable radio, NOAA weather radio, flashlight, 3. Stay away from potentially hazardous areas until you receive and extra batteries Local tsunamis an ALL CLEAR from local officials. Tsunamis often follow river • Rain gear, sturdy footwear, extra clothing TSUNAMI HAZARD ZONE A local tsunami can come onshore channels, and dangerous waves can persist for several hours. • Personal hygiene items (toilet paper, soap, toothbrush) within 15 to 20 minutes after the Local officials must inspect all flooded or earthquake-damaged • Tools and supplies (pocket knife, shut-off wrench, earthquake — before there is time structures before anyone can go back into them. duct tape, gloves, whistles, plastic bags) for an official warning from the • Cash national warning system. Ground 4. After evacuation, check with local emergency officials if IN CASE OF EARTHQUAKE, GO TO HIGH GROUND OR INLAND shaking from the earthquake may you think you have special skills and can help, or if you be the only warning you have. need assistance locating lost family members. Look for these hazard zone signs Evacuate quickly! and be ready to leave the area by *Assembly areas are shown on the map. Do not confuse Assembly Areas with following evacuation route signs. A Evacuation Centers, which are short-term help centers set up after a disaster occurs. WHAT TO KNOW about tsunamis Distant tsunamis A tsunami is a series of sea waves, usually caused by a displacement of the ocean floor by an A distant tsunami will take 4 hours or more to come ashore. You will feel no earthquake, and the tsunami will generally undersea earthquake. As tsunamis enter shallow water near land, they increase in height and can cause great loss of life and property damage. be smaller than that from a local earthquake. Typically, there is time for an official warning and evacuation toafety. Recent research suggests that tsunamis have struck the Oregon coast on a regular basis. They can Evacuation for a distant tsunami will generally be indicated by an announcement over NOAA weather radio that the local occur any time, day or . Typical wave heights from tsunamis occurring in the Pacific Ocean area has been put into an official TSUNAMI WARNING. If you do not hear an announcement, a sudden change of sea level over the last 500 years have been 20 65 feet at the shoreline. However, because of local conditions a few waves may have been much higher — as much as 100 feet. should prompt you to move immediately to high ground. If you see a sudden sea level change, first evacuate away from We distinguish between a tsunami caused by an undersea earthquake near the Oregon coast (a shoreline areas, then turn on your local broadcast media or NOAA weather radio for more information. local tsunami) and an undersea earthquake far away from the coast (a distant tsunami).