Brown Bag Lunch Online Presentation with Lori Dengler, Emeritus Professor of Geology, Cal-Poly Humboldt
Monday, March 25, 2024 - 12:00pm
Brown Bag Lunch Online Presentation with Lori Dengler, Emeritus Professor of Geology, Cal-Poly Humboldt : The Good Friday Earthquake of March 28, 1964 is the second largest magnitude earthquake ever recorded with modern instruments. The tsunami it generated caused the worst tsunami disaster on the U.S. West Coast and led to the establishment of what is now the National Tsunami Warning Center. The events of 1964 also serve as a model of what could happen here in a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake.
Lori Dengler is an emeritus professor of geology at Cal Poly Humboldt and an expert in tsunami and earthquake hazards. Since retiring in 2015, she continues to work on earthquake and tsunami preparedness efforts on the North Coast through the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group and nationally as a member of NOAA’s Tsunami Science Technical Advisory Panel.
Learn more about the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group: rctwg.humboldt.edu
