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Yawn.
This is old and accepted news. In Washington alone we have three big a$$ volcanoes (OK, two and a half) and the entire Puget Sound is resplendent with fault lines. A lot of Seattle is built on fill (Downtown, Harbor Is, Greenlake) and effecting all this is the subduction zone. Anyone paying attention would be comfortable saying it is going to be catastrophic if something happens.
And just what can be done about it? Empty Downtown and rebuild on bedrock? Build a big dam around the Sound as a seawall to control the tsunami? Raise all the Boeing plants up on stilts? Maybe some causeways to control the flooding from Rainer or Baker blowing up? As mentioned by Scuba Steve, Seattle is not well know for progressive thinking about infrastructural improvements.
So, what should be done to better prepare for an earthquake, eruption or tsunami to protect millions of people over hundreds (thousands?) of miles of coastline?
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