(TNS) - The county’s emergency planning agency is betting that moviegoers, after watching a 300-foot tsunami barrel through a Norwegian fjord toward a small town, will be more receptive to information about disaster preparedness.

The Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency will host a screening of the disaster thriller The Wave 6 p.m. March 4 at Kiggins Theatre in Vancouver. It’s the first of what agency Emergency Management Coordinator Eric Frank hopes will be a recurring disaster movie night.

A movie night might draw a bigger and different crowd than the agency’s other modes of outreach, he said. “We do a lot of events every single year, but we know we’re still missing some demographics in there.”

In The Wave, the geologist protagonist and his family are about to leave town for his new job when a rock slide kicks off a massive tsunami, leaving everyone in the area 10 minutes to get to high ground or perish.

There isn’t a tsunami danger in Clark County, but Frank said emergency planners intend to use the screening to show people hazard maps, so they might better know what other risks exist around their homes. They also hope to get more respondents for a survey on local residents’ awareness and preparation habits. The survey is part of an update to the county’s emergency plans.