Mika Inoue

Recent earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest have prompted emergency managers to remind the public to review their disaster plans and refresh their emergency kits. Shallow earthquakes of 4.0-magnitude and below have recently shaken residents up and down the Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska, and across the Cascades into Idaho. And some aren’t that little-a recent series of tremblors along the Blanco Fracture Zone off the Oregon coast ranged from 3.7 to 5.6. According to FEMA Regional Administrator Susan Reinertson, the spate of temblors is no cause for alarm, but no cause for complacency either. More…