The Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) is a sizeable geologic fault running from Northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino, California. The CSZ has enormous disaster potential, having caused earthquakes over a magnitude of 9.0. Due to its location off of the West Coast, a CSZ earthquake event has the ability to cause a tsunami as well.
To plan for this threat, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region 10 will host Cascadia Rising 2022: Rehearsal of Concept (ROC), a three-day discussion-based exercise to evaluate FEMA's coordinated response plan to a massive Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and resulting tsunami. Participants will include emergency management representatives from the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, tribal partners, FEMA, U.S. Department of Defense, American Red Cross, and Emergency Management British Columbia.