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FEMA is planning for an earthquake that would devastate the Pacific Northwest, killing...
The New Yorker via .businessinsider.com ^ | Cody Sullivan

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.


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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: bhofema; britishcolumbia; california; canada; cascadia; catastrophism; earthquake; earthquakes; fema; oregon; portlandia; preparedness; seattle; washington
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To: Vermont Lt; silverleaf

The extinct volcanic half of the island interior is accessible by tunnels. Wonder what size nuclear demolition charge planted near the core would be sufficient to move a mountain?


121 posted on 07/16/2015 1:38:51 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: BenLurkin

I actually enjoyed the BBC special more than the movie 2012 - thought the 2012 special effects were awesome though!

If Emmerich makes enough disaster movies eventually he’ll get one right

(From the BBC special, does the Yellowstone caldera pattern really show an eruption every 600K years, making the next one due now? If so, maybe no wonder TPTB censored that segment of the BBC special when it showed here. Enquiring minds will have to check it out)


122 posted on 07/16/2015 1:43:02 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Ozark Tom

I don’t think a nudet can come close to the actual force of nature


123 posted on 07/16/2015 1:45:21 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf

My guess — it was “censored” to make time for commercials.


124 posted on 07/16/2015 1:49:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: silverleaf

Think of it as starting an avalanche by nudging one small boulder down-slope into a field of loose rock.


125 posted on 07/16/2015 2:04:55 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Vermont Lt
Yeah - I get you regarding the “overdue” part. It is like the term “100 year flood” event to plan for. Over the long term it is probably reasonable. The trouble begins when you have two “100 year floods” in the span of a few years.

“Well I thought it would be safe to rebuild here....”

And while we can't predict when the next big EQ will happen, we can be pretty sure that it will happen. The same mechanisms are still all in place. And, with the longer times between major EQ, there is the idea that more strain and energy has been built up, making it that much bigger.

126 posted on 07/16/2015 3:59:56 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: silverleaf

According to my sources, this is just a typical training exercise. And .. now that day 2 is over; I must say I’m surprised at how quiet it is .. meaning .. there doesn’t seem to be any activity as of yet.

So, I’m guessing that all the hype from some people .. was really way out in left field .. or in other words, they didn’t have a clue what they were talking about.


127 posted on 07/16/2015 10:09:40 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: The Final Harvest

Let us hope so and that all the troops lack and head home before the Shemitah


128 posted on 07/17/2015 4:44:28 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf
I don’t think a nudet can come close to the actual force of nature

A tornado can demolish a building. So can a far-less-powerful, but strategically placed charge of dynamite. Precision versus brute force. Either can generally get the job done.

129 posted on 07/17/2015 12:39:43 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: CommerceComet
I also found an amusing article let from grist.com. There aappears to be a silver lining to all the destruction.

Good news about the killer quake

130 posted on 07/17/2015 3:29:09 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Only one solution left.....)
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To: hoagy62

I’ve always said that Seattle would be the best place in the world to live if half the people there moved away. I guess an earthquake could accomplish the same thing.


131 posted on 07/17/2015 9:40:13 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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