National Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Shakes Alaska, Damaging Roads, Buildings The earthquake, with its epicenter just a few miles off Anchorage, has been followed by a series of aftershocks. The Trans Alaska Pipeline System has been shut down. Camila Domonoske
Government Is King County prepared to respond to disaster in 125 languages? Alison Bruzek Ross Reynolds
Environment You may want to check your emergency water, because we did and ours was ... MOLDY Can you drink that water that was bottled years ago? We brought in experts to help us answer a listener question about earthquake preparedness. Deborah Wang
Government Q. How many Seattle buildings would be doomed in the Big One? Our search for an answer takes us to Chinatown International District and one woman's renewed relationship with her late father. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Are You 'Two Weeks Ready' For Post-Quake Survival? Washington And Oregon Say You Should Be The state of Oregon has set an ambitious goal to prepare more families in earthquake country to be "two weeks ready" after a disaster. Washington's emergency management agency is also seeking more funding to prepare people in a similar way. Tom Banse
Northwest's ancient earthquakes may help predict future quake risk One way to predict the risk of earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest is to look at how often they occurred in the past – and, for several groups of... Tom Banse
Could a tsunami reach Columbia City? And other Disaster Night! questions A catastrophe-focused crowd turned out last night for KUOW’s Disaster Night! — a quiz show about natural disasters (and disaster movies), at the Royal... David Hyde
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.... Bill Radke Amina Al-Sadi
British Columbia Not Prepared For A Big Earthquake David Hyde speaks with Vaughn Palmer, columnist for the Vancouver Sun, about seismic upgrading in British Columbia and how the province would fare if... Kate OConnell David Hyde
