Woodinville WA is located where interesting geological things have happened, and will continue to happen. There are choices and actions we can take today to reduce most of the risks, it doesn't make sense not to.

1. Increasing Wellness by Reducing Risks

3. Before talking Disasters Have to talk about our brains

4. “ C’est la vie” “ What will be will be” "You just take the good with the bad. You got to go somehow... So why not under six feet of mud?“* “ Have faith, Opi! God is good!”** *Seattle Times: Orting Resident on risk from volcano **NY Times: “The Day of the Tsunami” 9/30/09

5. So our systems block out future risk Photo by bitboy

7. Subconscious prehistoric wiring isn’t necessarily our friend

9. University of Washington Neptune Project

11. Best thing about earthquakes: We have a say about almost everything. Except when it will happen. Every problem has a solution

16. How are we mapped compared to the fault?

17. What is the school doing to be ready

29. We need to Realize Most fixes pretty easy

31. Best: low, wood --Bolted to Foundation

34. Pretty good in most earthquakes Not great in Subduction zone quakes

35. Worst for earthquakes Worst: Un-reinforced brick (recognized by levels of brick ends) Not very good: reinforced bricks (recognized when all bricks show their sides) Not very good: Retrofitted masonry (recognized by the added bolts) 5 out of 6 were damaged during the 2001 Nisqually Quake

36. Unreinforced Masonry

37. Bad for Quakes: Soft Structures