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Ghost names of only a few of our talented team:
Kerry, NYT best selling ghost writer of memoirs; Jake, NYT best selling rock music memoirs author; Carmen, NYT best seller women's author on Oprah; Mike, best seller graphic and comic novels writer; Rusty, NYT best selling author and proposal writer; David, Los Angeles leading TV and film producer; Maya, award winning science fiction ghost writer; Sallie, award winning nonfiction business writer; Robb, retired lead editor of Stars and Stripes; Kripalani, business copy editor textbook writer; Jonathan, content and developmental copy editor; Tony, print and ebook commercial publisher; Joe, fiction writer and commercial book publisher; Christopher, David, Art - award winning optioned and produced screenwriters; Linda, Vicky, Eric - film, video, media, documentary and TV producers . . .
Meet our Ghost Writers !

If Puget Sound is Falling Down
Ghost Writer Karen Cole | Features Article
University of Washington Geophysics Program
Writing Excellence Award at Writing.Com

William Steele, the Seismology Lab Coordinator at the University of Washington Geophysics Program, has a son, Chris, who goes to elementary school. "He comes in sometimes and he loves to do stuff." It seems he’d recently put a sticker on one of the lab's monitors, and his father had some trouble accessing the equipment. "What an excuse!" Steele never did get into the program he'd wanted to show me.

December 4 of last year there was a magnitude 5.1 quake in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Aftershocks were felt in Washington State. I had headed out to the UW in search of information on recent earthquake activity in the Puget Sound region.

"Oregon is relatively quiet next to Washington. But this year, we've had an enormous amount of activity in Oregon, counter to past patterns." Klamath Falls couldn’t be noisier, said Steele, ticking off the numbers: September 4, 5.9; Sept. 20, 5.9, 5.0, 4.3; Dec. 4, 5.1; and Christmas Day, 4.0, 3.4.

Most of our local activity in the Puget Sound region is recorded by the UW's lab equipment. They have an emergency preparation computer program called "Beat the Quake," hailing from the land of quakes, California, which has suffered through quite a lot of severe earthquake damage lately. That’s the program Steele had trouble running on his computer.

Fortunately, the UW’s Seismology Lab has far more emergency preparedness information, "so we don’t have to begin from ground zero" in the likely event of an earthquake. Steele is also the Public Information Officer covering quakes through the UW. "We have 135 seismic stations throughout Washington and Oregon, currently operating, and we're expanding. We really cover a tremendously broad area."

Of course, the big question everyone asks is, "When?"

"We're not able to put down a date. It’s more complicated because three types of quakes occur in the Puget Sound region. The most common are deep earthquakes. Signals travel through the planet's crust, sometimes all the way from the other side." Events from anywhere show up on their helicorder sheets, making an analog, a 24-hour record, of every quake - for example, the Klamath Falls quakes, which are very near California on the Oregon coast.

The lab shares data with California for quakes occurring on the border of California and Oregon. "We're part of the Washington Regional Seismic Network." Steele showed me a map of Pacific Northwest Seismicity, 1969-1991. There were huge blue clusters in Puget Sound. What are those, I asked. "Moderate, shallow, and deep quakes. The deep clusters are in the Puget Basin."

A flyer from the lab states that roughly 1,000 earthquakes per year are recorded in Washington and Oregon. "Between one and two dozen of these cause enough ground shaking to be felt by residents. Most are in the Puget Sound region, and few cause any real damage. However, based on the history of past damaging earthquakes and our understanding of the geologic history of the Pacific Northwest, we are certain that damaging earthquakes (magnitude 6.0 or greater) will recur in our area, although we have no way to predict whether this is more likely to be today, or years from now."

Steele sighed, stating that a colleague of his said it best: "The next great disaster will happen when we forget about the last one."

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If Puget Sound is Falling Down