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Originally Posted by Bugsinrugs
I’m thinking the Pacific Northwest is the place to worry about. The Cascadia subduction zone is way way way overdue. That one is going to wipe out Seattle or so I have read.
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Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle and Portland will all have major damage. A 700 mile subduction zone that lets go for the whole length, from the bottom 1/4 of Vancouver island to N California. Jan. 26, 1700, 9:30pm local time was when it let go last, they know that because the Japanese have been keeping written weather records since 200AD, 9hrs after the subduction zone releases Japan gets hit with a 20' tsunami, happens every 250-300 years on average, last time the coast of Wa state dropped almost 7 feet. There are places in Wa that are rising up 3/4" per year
They say that people at the coast have 5 min to get to high ground, the tsunami is traveling over 500mph and that you'll feel the quake 2000 miles away. Every major subduction zone in the Pacific Ring of Fire has let go in the last 70 years except the Cascadia fault and they predict over 9.1 on the sphincter scale, could be the largest event ever recorded. Its going to be devastating, this part of the west coast of N America will be shut down for years for basic services, water, power, N Gas. Millions of people will be affected, this will make the tsunami that hit Japan look like a ripple in a bath tub.
Hang onto your hat, this has been a regular occurrence for thousands of years. You would never call the Cascadia Subduction Zone "Old Faithful" but Old Regular comes to mind. Its a ticking time bomb.
Finn