‌A Message to the Campus Community

May 1, 2024 - 1:47 p.m.

Dear Students and Colleagues,

As we all come to terms with the recent events on campus, it is important to recognize the emotional impact they have taken on us, individually and collectively. We want to acknowledge that this has been an extremely challenging week for Cal Poly Humboldt. We are hurting within our campus community and beyond, and we have much work in front of us to reset, rebuild, and heal. This will take time. We will do this together.

 See more at humboldt.edu/emergency.

The Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami: Emergency Preparedness

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