Have we discussed the Cascadia subduction zone yet?

[Hugh R]

Yeah, but for Tornadoes you have a season, like every year. I've been through one big earthquake, Northridge. It wasn't pretty. two chimneys down, sliding doors that got skewed and wouldn't open, lots of stuff damaged stuff including original artwork that tore itself from the walls even with "earthquake" wall hangers, and Waterford Crystal that beat itself to death in the cabinets. Nothing like shop vacuuming up a few $1,000 of Waterford crystal debris. The little crystal we now have sits in padded boxes.

I'm at 1,500' msl, so no worries about Tsunamis.

I have enough emergency food and water to last about 2 months, maybe enough ammo if needed for a longer duration.

[Flieger]

This isn't news- I've been watching tv programs on it for at least 10 years and I'm only 25.

[Scuba Steve]

Idunno... if the sunken forests in Lake Washington suggest anything it's that you could run into a few problems in the city too.

[J P Stein]

Meh....the report was page 1 news for a day.

The fact is that no one knows what a mag. 9 quake a hundred miles (or so) off shore of the West Coast will do in terms of destruction.
Sure, all the so called leadership will hold meetings till hell won't have it and nothing will be done. I don't think anything can be done. The Japanese at least tried and their success is washing ashore as we speak.

We're going to find out. Maybe we'll lucky and a "worst case" won't happen and only a few thousand folks will be killed. Unless tourism is effected, it's no big deal, eh?

[tabs]

Originally Posted by J P Stein

Meh....the report was page 1 news for a day.

The fact is that no one knows what a mag. 9 quake a hundred miles (or so) off shore of the West Coast will do in terms of destruction.
Sure, all the so called leadership will hold meetings till hell won't have it and nothing will be done. I don't think anything can be done. The Japanese at least tried and their success is washing ashore as we speak.

We're going to find out. Maybe we'll lucky and a "worst case" won't happen and only a few thousand folks will be killed. Unless tourism is effected, it's no big deal, eh?

This is a joke right? If the big one hits I don't think you will be seeing many tourists after a few thousand get washed out to sea...and what will be left standing. NO and NJ are still not right after Katrina and Sandy.

U folks are really jerkin yourselves if yo think that this sort of event will not dramatically change the lives of people in the PNW. The studies are concluding a few tens of thousands. This could wipe a coupla hundred thousand with ease. Take a look at the Tsunami that hit Sri Lank a few years back 250,000 dead.

So do ya feel lucky today?

[dennis in se pa]

Interesting article. But why is it so verbose? Is the writer getting paid by the word? He could have explained what it was in 4 paragraphs. There are so many possible catastrophes that we don't know about that could occur at any second. No sense worrying about them.

[lane912]

This is the scariest part of living in Portland
I have known of this for most of my life-
And yes I think it will happen at any time-

[lane912]

http://www.oregongeology.org/pubs/ims/ims-028_72dpi.pdf
Lots of interesting info