The Westport Ocosta School District is proposing the construction of a new building to replace the current Ocosta Elementary School (Educational Service District 112, 2012). Since the Walsh et al. (2000) study, there have been significant advances in tsunami modeling and our understanding of potential CSZ earthquake events. ...

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A Maximum Considered Tsunami (MCT) scenario was developed for a magnitude 9 tsunamigenic earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The development of this MCT scenario is compliant with our current understanding of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Building Code 7 published in 2016, i.e., ASCE 7-16. The results ...

A berm design was developed for compatibility with guidelines published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for vertical evacuation structures; the design utilized the maximum flooding depth results of a previous modeling assessment of the Long Beach berm site (FEMA, 2012; González, et al., 2013). Recently, ...