Posted on 07/15/2015 4:47:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Edited on 07/15/2015 6:39:18 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
To the north of California's famous San Andreas fault is a less known, but possibly more deadly, fault line. The Cascadia subduction zone runs some 700 miles from northern California to Vancouver.
In a deeply reported article for The New Yorker, Kathryn Schulz tells the tale of how this fault lies dormant for periods of 243 years, on average, before unleashing monstrous tremors. The Pacific Northwest is 72 years overdue for the next quake, which is expected to be between 8.0 and 9.2 in magnitude.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Once uranium is processed to the degree necessary for a nuke it starts emitting tritium. That cannot be hidden.
Israel will bomb them the day after that is discovered.
Based on my open source reading, I don’t believe Israel will let them get to that point. They seem to have very adequate humint sources in Iran.
You have to know the standard deviations and the number of observations.
... and Salem and Eugene.
Seattle can only be conveniently accessed from the east by bridges due to Lake Washington. Access from the north or south doesn't require crossing any large body of water. When the I-90 floating bridge sunk in the early 1990s, it made for inconvenience but did not paralyze the city.
It is hard to tell what the total damage a 9.0 earthquake would be but it would be massive. I'm sure that both floating bridges are gone in such an earthquake. Is the Alaska Way Viaduct since in use? I wouldn't want to be on it or under it if such an earthquake hit. I'm sure it collapses. It is possible or likely that I-5 and other major roads would be damaged. Transportation around the Puget Sound would be certainly disrupted for weeks or months.
Do you mean (the caldera under) Yellowstone National Park? I hope so, I go to Yosemite fairly frequently!
I see now that there is land access to Seattle from the southeast corner near the south side of Lake Washington (Renton). But to the south and west there is the Duwamish River. And to the north there is the ship canal, Lake Union, etc. So one way in and out. (And the one major road in and out will be Martin Luther King Boulevard, which may tend to make things interesting with a million-plus people going without the basics of life.)
The tunnel project (Bertha) is what is to replace the Alaska Way Viaduct, and it is way behind schedule. They have modified the bearings and reinforced them, so I hope that does the trick. The bearings that they are replacing failed at the factory! Not sure why they didn’t reinforce them then before they shipped it to Seattle.
A friend of mine was here back in the sixties when Seattle had a big earthquake. He was on a small motorcycle traveling on the Alaskan Way Viaduct and it started to shake! He made it to the other side. It was closed for quite awhile after that one as they did repairs.
I didn’t know about that project — bingo! As long as they can blame Bertha’s problems on Republicans. It sounds as bad as Boston’s “Big Dig”.
Oops! You are correct. Yellowstone.
Yes, Yosemite was my mistake. Yellowstone is correct.
That’s good to know.
We spent a week in the rain, building dikes, one sand bag at a time.
When it was over, the sound of back-up alarms was everywhere. I asked a friend what the racket was about and was told they were removing the dikes we'd built.
When I asked "Aren't they going to make the flood infrastructure permanent?", I was told that it blocked the view of the river. That was the third highest crest on record, the '93(?) flood was worse.
I guess they finally learned.
Beans, bullets, Bottles and band-aids.
Batteries, bedding.
If we are "fallen away" then we are surely cast down!
Romans 9:17
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
The Goldfinger-led study took four years to complete and is based on 13 years of research. At 184 pages, it is the most comprehensive overview ever written of the Cascadia Subduction Zone....
a region off the Northwest coast where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is being subducted beneath the continent. Once thought to be a continuous fault line, Cascadia is now known to be at least partially segmented.
This segmentation is reflected in the region’s earthquake history, Goldfinger noted.
“Over the past 10,000 years, there have been 19 earthquakes that extended along most of the margin, stretching from southern Vancouver Island to the Oregon-California border,” Goldfinger noted. “These would typically be of a magnitude from about 8.7 to 9.2 – really huge earthquakes.
“We’ve also determined that there have been 22 additional earthquakes that involved just the southern end of the fault,” he added. “We are assuming that these are slightly smaller – more like 8.0 – but not necessarily. They were still very large earthquakes that if they happened today could have a devastating impact.”...
“By the year 2060, if we have not had an earthquake, we will have exceeded 85 percent of all the known intervals of earthquake recurrence in 10,000 years,” Patton said. “The interval between earthquakes ranges from a few decades to thousands of years. But we already have exceeded about three-fourths of them.”
The world’s gonna end in December, 2011 according to the Inca calendar.
Either then or the year 2000 (Y2K).
Watching this on New Madrid. Had not heard of it before your post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kc7pJ8f1aY#t=22
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