Tsunami Hazard Assessement of the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Work completed in July, 2021

This modeling project by the UW Tsunami Modeling Group will be submitted to the Washington State Emergency Management Division (EMD) and Washington State Geological Survey (WGS), for use in the production of maximum inundation and current speed mapping products. This project was funded by NOAA Award #NA20NWS4670068. This does not constitute an endorsement by NOAA.

Project report

Study regions

The Washington coast of the Strait of Juan de Fuca was modeled from just east of Neah Bay to just west of Port Townsend. The coast was split into 5 "fgmax regions" where maxima of water depth, flow speed, and other quantities are captured over the entire simulation.

The extent of the fgmax regions are shown in the Google Earth screenshot below as ruled rectangles that cover all fgmax points and that are used for guiding adaptive mesh refinement in the GeoClaw code.

From west to east, the five regions are named

The fgmax points within each region are the points that are colored in the images that can be viewed by downloading each of the kmz files listed below and opening them in Google Earth. All off-shore points in a polygonal region along with all onshore points that are below elevation 35m and accessible from the coast were selected as fgmax points.

Gauges

Code and data

Results

Notes:

Chito_Sekiu

Butler_Crescent

Elwha_PA

Dungeness_Sequim

Discovery_PT

(Using modified DEM provided by DNR)