- Even as work on Oregon State University's Marine Studies Building was underway in Newport, the Legislature went a step further and repealed a ban on construction of new critical facilities in tsunami inundation zones, allowing fire stations, police stations and schools to be built in the potential path of a tsunami.
- Chris Goldfinger, an Oregon State University professor and an earthquake geologist, says putting the $60 million oceanography building in the path of a tsunami is beyond ironic, and allowing even more construction threatens lives in favor of development.
https://ktla.com/2019/08/16/critics-blast-oregon-repeal-of-tsunami-zone-building-ban/
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