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  May is Volcano Awareness Month in Washington. The purpose of Volcano Awareness Month is to remind our state's residents to become more familiar with the hazards our five volcanoes pose and of the steps that can be taken to reduce potential effects on people and property. The U.S. Geological Survey has more on Washington's volcanoes and Volcano Awareness Month at . (USGS Photo)
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  Robert Ezelle began his duties as the new director of the Washington Emergency Management Division on April 1.
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  LONG BEACH – Officials safely removed a boat about 20 feet long that washed ashore March 22, 2013 on the Long Beach Peninsula. Agencies are evaluating whether the boat was swept into the Pacific Ocean during the devastating tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011.
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  OUTSTANDING: State Geologist and Seismic Safety Committee Co-Chair, Dave Norman, presents an award for dedicated service to his Committee Co-Chair, Jim Mullen, director of the Washington Emergency Management Division (WEMD). The presentation was made at the Feb. 6 meeting of the Seismic Safety Committee at Camp Murray, Washington. Photo by John Schelling, WEMD.
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  SEAVIEW, WASH. – State officials are examining a large, metal cylinder that washed ashore Monday at Cape Disappointment State Park to determine if it came from Japan's 2011 tsunami and if it is carrying potentially invasive species. No radioactive contamination above normal background levels was found. Photo courtesy of Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission. News release below; more photos at .
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  ANNIVERSARY OF NOTE: The Cascadia Subduction Zone was the source of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami off the Pacific coast on January 26, 1700--see news release below.
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  Brimful and then some: December’s king tides filled this Skagit County slough to the max. The Washington State Department of Ecology is looking for more photos of this month’s upcoming king tides, Jan. 10-12—see . Photo taken with a Nikon D50 on Dec. 17, 2012, in Edison, Washington. EcologyWA photostream.
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  Friday, Dec. 21: Members of the federal and state team beside a dock suspected to have been set adrift by the March 2011 Japanese tsunami. The dock came aground on a remote and rocky stretch of Olympic National Park shoreline recently. The team took live samples of potentially invasive species for analysis and noted that the dock was extensively damaged, probably due, at least in part, to rough weather and continued battering. (Photo courtesy of the National Park Service, Olympic National Park.)
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  POWERING OUT OF THE DARK--U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contractors connect a high-capacity generator to the Seattle Center Pavilions electric panel. Provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the generator was delivered and installed by the Corps before flipping the switch. The effort was aimed at making Washington State better prepared to restore emergency power following a diaster, all part of the mulit-agency Evergreen Logistics Exercise, June 12-14, the second phase of the 2012 Evergreen Quake Exercise Series. Photo by Richard A. Krikava, FEMA Region X.