An interesting metric from My Northwest:
Google searches prove devastating earthquake still top of mind in Washington
It’s clear that earthquakes are still top of mind for Western Washington residents.
One need only to look as far as the Google search bar to understand just how much interest there is.
As Estatly points out, “How to survive an earthquake?” is queried by Washingtonians in the Google search engine more frequently than any other state, including California. And that’s somewhat surprising, considering the fact that anxiety was high recently after a swarm of seismic activity prompted a warning of elevated risk for a San Andreas fault earthquake, and two faults were just found to be connected.
The search queries in Google were taken from the most common how-to questions over the past five years.
This is a good thing - preparedness begets survival and the more prepared you are, the more comfortable you will be until relief arrives.
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