Seaside, Oregon, Tsunami Pilot Study—Modernization of FEMA Flood Hazard Maps: GIS Data

Historic Tsunami Events and FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps

Deposits from several historic tsunamis in the Seaside area have been identified and mapped (Fiedorowicz, 1997; Jaffe and others, 2004). The locations of samples from the deposits (dot symbols) are compared in this figure with inundation limits for (1) “casc1700ln”, a worst case scenario of a Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) earthquake (Priest and others, 1997); (2) “ak64ln”, the 1964 Alaskan earthquake tsunami (Horning, Apx. C, Tsunami Pilot Study Working Group, 2006); and (3) “DOGAMI 95”, a limit based on one-dimensional modeling of the CSZ in response to 1995 Oregon Senate Bill 379 (Priest, 1995). The background map is the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for Seaside, Oregon (FEMA, 1981).

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