You'll probably live through the big earthquake. Are we ready for the aftermath?
There will be a time — it could be tomorrow, it could be 100 years from now —when the ground beneath us will start to shake.
Buildings will crumble. Roads will be destroyed. And then a 60-foot wall of water will crash onto the Washington coast line.
The West Coast is a ticking time bomb. The big earthquake will come. Will you be ready?
You could be, says Dr. Lucy Jones. She is the author of the new book, "The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us," and spoke with Bill Radke about dealing with the aftermath of an earthquake.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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