EDMONDS– Residents and visitors of Edmonds may hear the wailing sound of a tsunami siren at 10:16 a.m. tomorrow morning, October 16, but don’t be alarmed: it’s just a test.

Tomorrow morning’s siren testing falls on this year’s Great Washington ShakeOut event, where Washingtonians (and millions more around the world) practice earthquake drills at work, school, or home.

Emergency Management encourages everyone to remember these three words in the event of an earthquake: “Drop, cover, and hold.”

But the annual ShakeOut event is not reserved for earthquake drill protocol. It also applies to tsunami evacuation for coastal, and waterfront, cities like Edmonds.

Tomorrow morning, at approximately 10:16 a.m., the city’s tsunami sirens can be heard emanating from West Dayton Street and Railroad

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