[Dacula]

Earthquake study could make Pacific Northwest safer

Just pass the test and become certified, then you can stop worrying.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I feel better already.

[Godzilla]

SMH - I guess farmers in Washington state need to get out of the hillside rice patty farming business.

[Ezekiel]

[jonascord]

Landslides are WAY down the list of concerns. Tsunamis, and building collapses, particularly up the Columbia, and along the coast line, are a greater problem.

Landslides will close rail and highway links to the coast, but it's Democrats, so there is always an upside.

[Seaplaner]

I briefly skimmed the article, and I do suspect that the study could yield positive results, mainly concerning landslides of soggy earth.

That said, the biggest worry about a major e.q. along the Cascadia Subduction Zone are the potentially immense tsunamis that will be reflected far back onto shore.

[Zathras]

Number 1: Don’t live on the Oregon-Washington Coast.
I just saved millions of lives. Where is my $100M grant?
The Oregon Coast is lovely but it is going to be bad when Cascadia snaps.

[DuncanWaring]

Here’s a tale of the 1700 quake:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

[numberonepal]

dutchsinse is the best forecaster of earthquakes I know of:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHE92x768p8h-fMrqhsnE1Q

[PIF]

Earthquake study could make Pacific Northwest safer ... if you study something dangerous and in all probability a real future event, if will see that you are on to it and slink away with barely a whimper. You are now safe and can continue to attract more homeless drug uses will crap on your streets while you laugh at the normal people protesting them.

On second thought, do us all a favor and stop studying

[Parmy]

Well, they were studying Mt. St. Helens in 1980. Guess what? It blew anyway and inundated much of Washington in ash and ground up aggregate.

So, how much good will all of this do? When Mother Nature blows her top, humans are insignificant.