UW Emergency Management


March 27, 2019

Snowpocalypse 2019: A podcast describing this freak event in Seattle

Want to really understand why our 10+ days of snow, ice and record cold weather in early February 2019 was so unusual?  Click here to be taken to a 12-minute podcast detailing why this series of February storms were so unusual for Western Washington and how many records were broken.  Courtesy of our local FOX-13…


March 18, 2019

UW Alert …or Advisory?!? How does that System Actually Work?

Ever wonder why and how the UW Alert campus notification system actually works?  Who sends out those messages?  How do they determine what the message is?  Well, our friends at the UW Daily newspaper dispatched their finest investigative reporters out to unravel this mystery.  The full feature article can be found HERE.


March 15, 2019

Off the Richter Scale … Can the Pacific Northwest prepare for the cataclysmic quake that’s coming?

Americans have long dreaded the “Big One,” a magnitude 8.0 earthquake along California’s San Andreas Fault that could one day kill thousands of people and cause billions of dollars in damage. The Big One, though, is a mere mini-me compared with the cataclysm forming beneath the Pacific Northwest. This fascinating, and yes, quite scary article…