PORT ANGELES – As we reported earlier this month, the Tsunami Roadshow will be in town tomorrow and Friday to make as many people as possible aware of what tsunami alerts are, how to receive them and what they need to know to survive.

Officials from the Washington Emergency Management Division will be joined by the National Weather Service, Washington Sea Grant, local emergency management officials and the Washington Geological Survey, in the 90-minute presentation. Experts will discuss tsunami evacuation structures, potential earthquake early warning systems and survival strategies.

Whether you’ll be attending or not, you might want to take a look at a brand-new evacuation map published by the DNR for the cities of Port Angeles, Bellingham, Anacortes, Aberdeen, Hoquiam, and Cosmopolis.

The map lays out tsunami evacuation walking routes in the event of a Cascadia earthquake. Knowing where to walk and how long it might take to get there can be one of the most important pieces of information for survival. The maps use colors to indicate how many minutes it would take to walk to safety at a moderate pace within these communities.

The Tsunami Roadshow is a 90-minute program scheduled for Thursday, April 11 in The Little Theater at Peninsula College at 6:00 pm.

On Friday the 12th they’ll be at the Lower Elwha Tribal Center gym at 10:00 am.

Models, maps available online

The new pedestrian maps and maps for other communities are available through an interactive map on the DNR web site: https://www.dnr.wa.gov/programs-and-services/geology/geologic-hazards/tsunamis/evacuation

Other information about impacts from earthquakes to Washington communities is available on DNR’s Geologic Information Portal at: https://geologyportal.dnr.wa.gov