FISH ON!!!

This will be fun. You brought your bedpan to a match you cannot win.

Full disclosure: I do not dismiss the magnitude of this future event - including to coastal areas, likely to occur LONG after my passing - but merely the hyped BS promulgated by money-grubbing bureaucrats and suckers (check your mirror).

You're citing sources from the internet like a teenager hot-posting to social media.

Regardless that you're acting like an ignoramus freshman at CalState, you were clearly never involved in emergency management in the PNW.

I was.

You're just an armchair quarterback operating from his mother's basement or, at a minimum, harbor no credibility whatsoever about PNW geologic events.

Let me repeat for others:

Evidenced by your sourcing, you have no credibility whatsoever on geologic events.

Goldfinger is an idiot and IS, in fact, one of Kathryn Schulz's sources for her ridiculous 2015 piece. It was a bureaucrat - a FEMA official, Kenneth Murphy, a bureaucrat with NO credentials in seismology and merely a BS Science in Management & Communications - who was the source of your ignorance:

The Really Big One

Kenneth Murphy, who directs fema’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”

Your source of ignorance also projects the fraudulent climate change in her other works.

How's that grab you? Some Conservative. /s

Oregon is populated by academia-sourced idiots. True Conservatives here at FR do NOT cite academia unless out of bias. Or ignorance. Or cranial-rectal inversion.

I digress.

Emergency management at the highest levels are both realists and hypocrites befitting the liberal climate of government in Oregon & Washington. Though they openly mock the idiocy of Schulz, there ARE some true scientists working here and due to the fact that they know they can't keep projecting the FRAUD of a 'MAG 9' impact upon populated inland areas of the PNW NOT impacted by tsunami, they published this merely a few weeks ago:

New study predicts less damage than previously expected to bridges in Western Washington following a M9 earthquake

Translated: They acknowledge that the shaking inland will be FAR LESS DESTRUCTIVE than state officials proclaim with their scare headlines (which, ironically, also lack any meaningful actions whatsoever, including - but not limited to - a glaring lack of building code updates to match or exceed that of earthquake-prone areas of CA).

Better, your beloved USGS published this shakemap of the PNW in regards to M 9.3 Scenario Earthquake - Cascadia Megathrust:

Ironically, it does NOT project 9-9.3 shaking anywhere ashore.

Gee...I wonder why? /s

Also - ironically - it looks a LOT like the Tohoku shake map:

Ignorance (yours) aside, the geology of Japan and western Oregon are remarkably similar (barring the inevitable liquefaction zones and obvious sedimentary formations). Ironically, Japan's shaking was reduced significantly on the western side of its mountainous ranges; the Cascade Range presents a geologic barrier to a subduction event, but that's another discussion altogether (though not with knuckleheads).

The 'experts' now forecast greater damage to Seattle from a rupture of the local Seattle Fault.

Batter up, bat-boy.