I think the year of publication of this article — 2015 — should be in the title, no?
It is not a big difference in geological time.
haha true
An earthquake could destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest (2015)
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe they are referring to the tsunami that follows the earthquake, based on evidence from before the Europeans colonized the continent.
At least in Oregon, I-5 is 50 miles away from the coast and separated from it by a small mountain range. I don't think we're too worried about tsunamis getting all the way to I-5. Definitely will get to Highway 101 in some spots, however. But a lot of the coastline is tall enough that you can usually find a safe place nearby if a tsunami warning sounds.
> But a lot of the coastline is tall enough that you can usually find a safe place nearby if a tsunami warning sounds.
On the bright side, you won't need a siren, If the ground drops by 10 meters over the course of 5 minutes and you can't stand up because of the shaking, you can be sure a tsunamui up to 30 meters high will be there in an hour or two.
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#94Don't get too comfortable if you're on the East Coast. Whatever survives sea level rise due to global heating, will be wiped out by the megatsunami caused by the ensuing landslide when La Palma erupts.
My East Coast tsunami money is on a submarine landslide. Long odds but what a payout. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=us+east+coast+submarine+landslide In theory tho, a well placed earthquake could bump those odds https://geology.com/noaa/atlantic-ocean-tsunami/
With the way things are going, this might just get struck off the bingo card.
Re: An earthquake could destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest (2015)
#95“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.”
… great point.