[Mears]

I’ve never visited that area and knowing my luck the earth would open up just as my plane was about to touch down. :-)

I wish those people well—a very frightening scenario.

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[Mr. Mojo]

These articles are NOT helping my house sell.

Especially since I’m right on the water.

[BenLurkin]

There used to be quite a few self-identifying HAM radio operators on FreeRepublic.

I wonder if there is a ping list for any FReeper hamsters (or whatever they call themselves)

[PROCON]

What about a rehearsal for a cataclysmic Global Warming^TM event?

I demand that the gubmint issue each citizen 300 lbs. of ice cubes that we can huddle under practicing for when the "Big Char" strikes!.

It's for the children!

[BuffaloJack]

The lefty alarmists really do like doing the Chicken Little, don’t they.

[snarkpup]

I think these disaster preparedness drills would be more fun and more instructive if the specific communities to be involved, and the nature of the disasters, were chosen at random at (literally) the last minute before the drill is to begin. In addition, the timing of when the drill begins should be chosen at random, to begin at some time within, say, a one-month period.

[Pride in the USA]

Never mind that the last Cascadia Subduction Zone megaquake may have occurred in 1700. If I lived my life waiting for all the dire predictions of the last 30-40 years to come true, I would be a total wreck. Predictions that a megaquake was overdue along the Pacific Northwest coast have circulated since the 1960’s. A mini-ice age was supposedly developing in the 1970’s, which would result in wide spread death and chaos. Global warming was sure to kill most of us starting in the 1990’s, a huge asteroid or meteor strike is sure to wipe out many any day now, and the magnetic north and south poles are reversing and may result in untold destruction of life as we know it. Oh, yes, and the Yellowstone caldera is overdue for a huge eruption that will wipe out much of the United States. Never mind that the last such eruption happened over 640,000 years ago, it could happen again . . . any day now. As the saying goes, “sh*t happens.” Live your life to the fullest, because every day is a gift.

[crz]

The only means of transportation that will be reliable will be the copters.

Everything WEST of the Cascades will be damaged, some beyound repair, and everything along the coast will be gone.

The interstate will have nearly no bridges standing. Every single public service will cease to exsist in most places.

They now understand that the effects will be devestating well onshore-even to Portland, as the effects will be much closer than originally thought.

In short, you are on your own for quite some time.

When that fault slips, and it will, it will be a mag 9+ and will last for at least 5 to 6 minutes. The latest underwater studies have found that the fault has bulged the land up into the Cascades...some feet in many cases. This is a subduction fault and not like the sideslip faults like in S California. The same as the Japan earthquake and the Boxing day earthquake in SE Asian.

[DAC21]

While visiting Lake Quinault in the Olympic peninsula a few years back we drove over to the Coast, Pacific beach I believe. The roads are all marked with Tsunami evacuations directions. They know it’s coming. I read that there was a major quake there around 1700 estimated to be 9.0 Coastal Forests dropped into the sea. I guess the time frame was determined from Japanese records of a major tsunami from that year not attributed to a local earthquake.