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Second Sunday: Bonnie Henderson and "The Next Tsunami"

Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 7/13/2014
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 3:15 PM
Description:
 On a March evening in 1964, ten-year-old Tom Horning awoke near midnight to find his yard transformed. A tsunami triggered by Alaska’s momentous Good Friday earthquake had wreaked havoc in his Seaside, Oregon, neighborhood. It was, as far as anyone knew, the Pacific Northwest coast’s first-ever tsunami.

More than twenty years passed before geologists discovered that it was neither Seaside’s first nor worst tsunami. In fact, massive tsunamis strike the Pacific coast every few hundred years, triggered not by distant temblors but by huge quakes less than one hundred miles off the Northwest coast. In this Second Sunday presentation, which dovetails with the Library’s science-themed Summer Reading Program, writer and journalist Bonnie Henderson will discuss her work as well as tell the tale of how scientists came to understand the Cascadia Subduction Zone and how ordinary people cope with that knowledge.

Henderson's new book is "The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast." She is also the author of “Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris.” She is currently a freelance writer and editor. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.



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Library: Downtown Bend Public Library
Location: Brooks Room
Contact: Tina Walker Davisq
Contact Number: 541-312-1034
Presenter: Bonnie Henderson, Author
Link: Bonnie Henderson's Website