Just today, King County declared an emergency in anticipation of flooding from the leaking Howard Hanson Dam. (Gary posted here about the Howard Hanson Dam sinkhole back in February).

Three stories this week popped out at me in the Disaster Resource Continuity e-GUIDE weekly email:

First, a company in Newark, CA (Risk Management System) has come up with a new earthquake simulation that is radically changing damage estimates for California and other prone areas (including the northwest). LA Bizjournal covered the story. This could affect insurance rates.

We have a new video up on YouTube, which shows a depiction of Stephen Flynn's scenario from Edge Of Disaster, chapter 4: "Disaster on the Delta".

In my last post, Modeling the Bonneville Landslide, I brainstormed some of the ways that Depiction could be used in secondary education. That's fine and good, but Depiction is already being used in higher education all over the country (and beyond).

Before coming to work here at Depiction, I taught middle school science, including earth science. The key theme of a middle school earth science course is that the surface of the earth is constantly changing. Though it looks like it is static, that’s only because the changes come very slowly, or very rarely. One of the reasons I am excited about Depiction is its great potential for use in earth science, because it treats the earth like the dynamic thing it really is.