1700 Cascadia Earthquake
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1700 Cascadia Earthquake
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#2Would not be complete without this fantastic article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
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#3And for our European readers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake
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#4Would not be complete without this fantastic article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
And Peter Watts' Starfish, from the web site of the author https://www.rifters.com/real/STARFISH.htm
That's the next earthquake.
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#5"Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast."
Ouch.
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#6"Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast." Ouch.
It's a great soundbite, but it loses a lot of context when distilled down.
Most of the infill west of I5 in the Seattle area will probably liquefy, but there's mountain ranges to the west of I5 that would take a hell of a quake to toast.
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#7Would not be complete without this fantastic article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
And Peter Watts' Starfish, from the web site of the author https://www.rifters.com/real/STARFISH.htm That's the next earthquake.
And Pacific Northwest Seismic Network blog
https://pnsn.org/blog/2020/01/27/getting-ready-for-the-next-...
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#8"Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast." Ouch.
It's a great soundbite, but it loses a lot of context when distilled down. Most of the infill west of I5 in the Seattle area will probably liquefy, but there's mountain ranges to the west of I5 that would take a hell of a quake to toast.
Yes, I have assumed they meant something more specific, like "every building and road west of I5" (I live only a few miles east, so I doubt I'd be unscathed myself, somehow).
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#9"Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast." Ouch.
It's a great soundbite, but it loses a lot of context when distilled down. Most of the infill west of I5 in the Seattle area will probably liquefy, but there's mountain ranges to the west of I5 that would take a hell of a quake to toast.
The earth will be fine its the humans we are worried about
Specifically, the perpetual habitability for humans
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#10I love how some cultures have recordkeeping that goes back hundreds of years that can be tied to explain some unusual sediment deposits found halfway around the world.