Seaside students' GoFundMe campaign aims to get them out of tsunami zone
Seaside hit by tsunami as shown by OSU wave lab
Researchers at Oregon State University run a test modeling the effects of a tsunami hitting Seaside.
Students in Seaside are taking disaster preparedness into their own hands and launching a fundraiser to move their schools out of a tsunami zone.
An article published in The New Yorker this summer warned of a Northwest Cascadia subduction-zone earthquake and tsunami that could kill thousands and decimate stretches of coastline west of Interstate 5. The odds of a big earthquake occurring in the next 50 years was roughly one in three, experts said.
The article quickly created a social-media buzz and prompted discussions about disaster preparedness. In Seaside, located in Clatsop County on the Oregon coast, students are worried their community isn't ready for when the disaster hits.
A recently launched GoFundMe is aiming to raise money to prepare for the event, with most of the funds intended to relocate schools that currently sit in a tsunami zone. A 2013 bond to rebuild the schools on a different site failed.
"We are faced with the reality that our home will be a disaster zone someday, " reads a description of the fundraiser. "We as students have taken initiative to start a campaign to raise awareness for this inevitable disaster."
The fundraiser was launched Dec. 11 and has so far raised about $570. The total goal is $200 million with $128 billed as the cost for rebuilding schools.
Here's more earthquake coverage:
Experts advise nervous Northwesteners on preparing for The Really Big One
Which Oregon Coast towns face damage if earthquake makes waves?
The really big on and Portland: answers from earthquake experts
Earthquake and tsunami explained by hand
--Laura Frazier
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