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Western Broadcasting and Earthquakes
While many parts of the United States are known for hurricanes, tornadoes and other severe weather, here in the West we have a special proclivity for that much-less predictable natural disaster: the earthquake.
Thus, rather than issuing forecasts that send the audience scurrying to Home Depot for plywood to protect picture windows, or clambering down to the storm cellar to wait for the twister to pass, Western broadcasters are occasionally simply caught on the air as the earth begins to shake.
It was exactly 10 years ago that the so-called "Nisqually Earthquake" struck western Washington state just before 11:00 am on Tuesday, February 28, 2001. Seattle's most popular radio talkshow hosts were live 'n local when the 6.8 magnitude tremor hit, and both Dave Ross of commercial station KIRO and Steve Scher of NPR affiliate KUOW agreed to re-enact what happened in their respective studios (for the benefit of video cameras) a few weeks ago.
Click here to see how Steve Scher kept his cool; click here to see Dave Ross demonstrate how he hid under his desk until his inner reporter got the best of him.
Meanwhile, tomorrow's forecast calls for an unknown percentage chance of a major quake somewhere in the western United States. And the outlook for the rest of the week and the weekend ahead is about the same.
(Posted by Feliks Banel)
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