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![Staying alive during an earthquake or a tsunami often necessitates
escaping on foot. The U.S. Geological Survey's evacuation guidance
focuses on pedestrians because of copious research into the hazards of
driving, says DNR lead project scientist Dan Eungard.
"After a major earthquake event [like] Cascadia, your road network is
going to be largely unusable," Eungard says, noting that liquefaction,
ground shaking and landslides will destroy roads and bridges. Where
they don't fall apart, downed trees and power lines may make them
impassable. "[In] other major earthquake events around the world, all it
took was one car crash and it's blocked a road, and then everyone else
couldn't evacuate out off of that road in their vehicle."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ao735ehgzfo4hqxi3wlr2pyt/bafkreidxn7olw6olsxubi33cutuzkpt4ltpnk23p6jde6u3ys4tg4by554)
