[PLUG-TALK] Local earthquake vulnerability

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Oct 30 19:53:18 UTC 2020


On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, Russell Senior wrote:

> Where? You sure you don't mean Dodson? I just looked at Mosier on Google
> Maps satellite view and couldn't see what you are talking about.
>
> There was the 1996 debris flow that occurred in conjunction with the
> historic flooding that filled the Dodson house with boulders.

Could be. The house was built on an alluvial fan outflow of a draw on the
north wall of the Gorge, and, IIRC, heavy precipitation saturated the
alluvial soils and floated the house across the flood plain close to the
east-bound lanes of I-84.

Carpe weekend,

Rich




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