#cascadia fault

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Caitlin’s Halloween recommendations;

Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America, by Jerry Thompson, $16.95, ISBN# 9781582438245, from Counterpoint.

Crippled America: How to make America Great Again, by Donald T. Trump, $25.00, ISBN# 9781501137969, from Simon and Schuster.

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, $9.95, ISBN# 9780231169547, from Columbia University Press.

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Is the Big One Coming? FEMA Increases Earthquake Preparedness Activities

Is the Big One Coming? FEMA Increases Earthquake Preparedness Activities

By Daisy Luther – DaisyLuther.com

It’s no secret that the West Coast is waiting for The Big One. From fictionalized versions like the movie San Andreas (which, although full of dramatic special effects and creative license, still had a few things to teach us) to unsettling novels like Cascadia, which is all the more alarming for its scientific accuracy, everyone is imagining that the worst could…

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Preparing for the Unpredictable: Megaquake, Tsunami May Forever Alter the Pacific Northwest

Preparing for the Unpredictable: Megaquake, Tsunami May Forever Alter the Pacific Northwest

In 2011, an earthquake generated a devastating tsunami that was observed across the Pacific and caused tremendous local devastation in Japan. (Photo/Shunichi Koshimura)

By Michael Kuhne – AccuWeather

Stretching more than 600 miles (965 km) along the coastline from Vancouver Island down to California’s Cape Mendocino lies a sleeping, tectonic giant capable of causing massive devastation and…

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@iamthepulta says that the Cascadia fault is “a hipster” but Cascadia’s cousin, the San Andreas fault, is “classy”. Geologists just know these things.

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People Are Freaking out That a Giant Earthquake and Tsunami Are About to Hit Washington and Oregon

People Are Freaking out That a Giant Earthquake and Tsunami Are About to Hit Washington and Oregon

By Melissa Dykes – The Daily Sheeple

We live in a world where a rumor spread online is enough to set whole swaths of the population into total panic, regardless of whether or not that info is fact or fiction. Twitter rumors have caused bank runs in multiple countries now, for example. This is just the times we’re living in.

Well this week, after two large volcanoes erupted which forced 1,200…

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psa

for people who live in the pacific northwest like me:

i’m sure a lot of you have seen the news about the hugeass earthquake that’s due to hit really soon (tens of thousands of deaths, 70% of them in washington, 30000 avalanches/landslides in seattle alone, complete remodeling of the coastline by a 100 feet tall tsunami, 20 min to run to higher land, magnitude 9.0, etc etc) 

we’ve heard a shit ton of “world’s ending” stories but just as a heads up - we are 72 years over due for this earthquake

so just in case, get your 900 gallons of water and running shoes ready (or your moving truck, idk) 

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But in seriousness, the Cascadia fault up in the...

yup, there’s far more likely to be tectonic activity due to volcanoes in that range like Hood, Rainier, Baker, and of course, St Helens. I think all 4 are actually still considered active? I know Baker is…

Well the Cascadia fault is a subduction fault which means the ocean floor is basically being driven under another plate and thus higher rates of earthquakes, volcanos, mountain-building, etc.

Hood, Rainer, St. Helens, Baker are all active, and so is the Three Sisters one of which (South Sister) was rumored to be active a few years ago, as was St. Helen’s sometime in 2005 though they are all dormant. Still doesn’t erode the possibility that they will erupt one day. There’s also Bachelor (which is also a ski resort), Jefferson, and a few others. Not even going to factor in the ones in California or the rest in Washington state

In fact, Rainer might be the most dangerous of the group considering it’s location and the fact that there have been huge lahars from the build-up of snow and ice on it’s peak.