Geotrek

Inside the Nation’s First Tsunami Evacuation Structure with Quintin Swanson

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What happens when generations of tsunami stories become a blueprint for saving lives? In this episode, Quintin Swanson, Council Chairman and Education Director of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe, explains how ancestral knowledge and modern engineering came together to build the first tsunami vertical evacuation structure in the United States.

Quintin shares the tribe’s history on Washington’s…