[shotgun]

“Oregon had recorded no earthquakes since American pioneers colonized the territory in the nineteenth century, and the native population had no written records, but the earth itself keeps copious records of geologic events, once one knows where to look”

I graduated in 2002 from the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls and I find this statement hard to believe. The rocky cliffs along Agency Lake north of Kfalls provide plenty of evidence of up thrusting. We studied these in my Geology class.

Also while I was there we had a 5.7 quake come rolling through one afternoon. Before that I had experienced a couple 4.0 + while living in Seattle in the late 90’s

[OregonRancher]

“Also while I was there we had a 5.7 quake come rolling through one afternoon.”

We felt that one in Grants Pass.

[Sarcasm Factory]

Sounds like a journalistic lapse on the part of Michael Totten. He's generally an excellent writer, but we're all human and prone to the momentary fit of laziness in research. I guess you could email the man to ask him about those geologic features and smaller earthquakes you mentioned. ^^;

[CedarDave]

If the date of the earthquake was 1700, that was only several years before the Lewis and Clark expedition of discovery, and the natives surely would have experienced it. Has anyone seen any mention of this in their journals as told to them by the natives?

[Tellurian]

The rocky cliffs along Agency Lake north of Kfalls provide plenty of evidence of up thrusting

Given you've seen (?) evidence of up thrusting, I wonder how that squares with the article's implication that "ghost forests" are the result of the coastline sinking.