Yurgon Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 The Really Big One An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when. Excerpt: Just north of the San Andreas, however, lies another fault line. Known as the Cascadia subduction zone, it runs for seven hundred miles off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, beginning near Cape Mendocino, California, continuing along Oregon and Washington, and terminating around Vancouver Island, Canada. The “Cascadia” part of its name comes from the Cascade Range, a chain of volcanic mountains that follow the same course a hundred or so miles inland. The “subduction zone” part refers to a region of the planet where one tectonic plate is sliding underneath (subducting) another. Tectonic plates are those slabs of mantle and crust that, in their epochs-long drift, rearrange the earth’s continents and oceans. Most of the time, their movement is slow, harmless, and all but undetectable. Occasionally, at the borders where they meet, it is not. The article is approximately a 20 or 30 minute read, but well worth it IMO. Very well written, very detailed, and despite the title it doesn't actually sound alarmist to me, more like "Listen up, folks, we should really spread the word and do something about it." Link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
NoJoe Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 Uh oh. That's where I live. :P This was something I grew up with, and I remember my parents teaching my brother and I how to store clean water, and what to do if we had a big earthquake and lost power and water for an extended period of time. We had earthquake drills all the time in school, too. I just hope this doesn't hit any time soon. The "Big One" has waited quite a while, maybe it can wait another 100 years.
javelina1 Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 Hope not either, wouldn't want the biggie to hit there either. I lived in the Seattle area in the late 90's. Loved it, and the Cascades. Great part of the USA. :thumbup: MSI MAG Z790 Carbon, i9-13900k, NH-D15 cooler, 64 GB CL40 6000mhz RAM, MSI RTX4090, Yamaha 5.1 A/V Receiver, 4x 2TB Samsung 980 Pro NVMe, 1x 2TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD, Win 11 Pro, TM Warthog, Virpil WarBRD, MFG Crosswinds, 43" Samsung 4K TV, 21.5 Acer VT touchscreen, TrackIR, Varjo Aero, Wheel Stand Pro Super Warthog, Phanteks Enthoo Pro2 Full Tower Case, Seasonic GX-1200 ATX3 PSU, PointCTRL, Buttkicker 2, K-51 Helicopter Collective Control
Wolf Rider Posted July 15, 2015 Posted July 15, 2015 the whole plate is livening up... Yellowstone City Hall is easier to fight, than a boys' club - an observation :P "Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us." - Jefferson "Give a group of potheads a bunch of weed and nothing to smoke out of, and they'll quickly turn into engineers... its simply amazing." EVGA X99 FTW, EVGA GTX980Ti FTW, i7 5930K, 16Gb Corsair Dominator 2666Hz, Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit, Intel 520 SSD x 2, Samsung PX2370 monitor and all the other toys - "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar"
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