[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?