Conducting successful life-saving and life-sustaining response operations in the aftermath of a Cascadia Subduction Zone disaster will hinge on the effective coordination and integration of governments at all levels – cities, counties, state and Federal agencies, the military, tribal nations, non-government organizations and the private sector. One of the primary goals of the Cascadia Rising 2022 exercise is to build upon the lessons learned from the Cascadia Rising 2016 exercise and continue to train and test the whole community approach to complex disaster operations together as a joint team.
Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake Exercise (Cascadia Rising 2022), an existing Region X exercise, will focus on critical components to a catastrophic earthquake, including state, local, tribal, federal, Department of Defense, Emergency Management Assistance Compact, non-profit, and private-sector participation across the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, with additional support from Alaska.
About the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) Earthquake: A 9.0 magnitude Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquake ripping across the 700-mile CSZ fault line occurs on average once every 200 to 500 years. The last major CSZ earthquake and tsunami occurred in 1700. Recent subduction zone fault earthquakes around the world underscore the similar challenges we will face when the next CSZ earthquake and tsunami occurs in our region:
