FILE - In the March 21, 2011, file photo, people look out at tsunami damage from a hill where there is a shelter set up in a school in Minamisanriku, Japan. Up and down the coast of the Pacific Northwest in the United States, communities have been intensifying their efforts to protect lives when the region is hit by a killer quake and tsunami, which seismologists say is inevitable. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)