Cascadia Subduction Zone feared as West coast prepares for new Tsunami threats

HULIQ ^ | April 7, 2011 | Dave Masko

[La Enchiladita]

According to Professor Goldfinger -- and other Tsunami experts from nearby Oregon State University -- “there are remarkable geologic parallels between what just happened in East Asia and what could happen in the Pacific Northwest. The Asian event happened where the India plate was being subducted beneath the Burma microplate, and it ruptured - for the first time since 1833 - along a 600-mile front that is just about the same length as the Cascadia Subduction Zone. “

..."We're not nearly as well prepared as the Japanese, and clearly they were overwhelmed," said Bill Steele, coordinator of the University of Washington's Seismology Laboratory. "It is a problem."

[Jack Hydrazine]

Sumatra, Chile, New Zealand, Japan and up next?

Seattle with at least an 8.8 to 9.2 magnitude quake.

[pnh102]

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!

[paulycy]

[Ford4000]

Goldfinger: No, I expect you to die!

[Emperor Palpatine]

Professor Goldfinger?

[LibLieSlayer]

Well I hope this mister steele can solve the problem without using our tax dollars because we are broke to the power of ten. Scam someone else with your grant wh0re spiel, mister steele.

LLS

[HereInTheHeartland]

“WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!! “

Eventually.

[NavyCanDo]

Juan de Fucu Subduction zone off WA & Ore is the only significant fault line on the Ring of Fire NOT to have experienced a major earthquake in the last 50 years. The last one around a 9.1 happened in 1700. It is not if, but when for the next one.

http://standeyo.com/Reports/041222.EQ.warning/West.Coast/ring.of.fire.gif

[WayneS]

I thought the Cascadia Seduction Zone in Georgetown...

;-)

[ichabod1]

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!

Anthropogenic Global Warming to blame. Universal Carbon Taxes the solution. Women and minorities hardest hit.

[La Enchiladita]

Just sayin’.... could be the Northwest shakes before Cali does....

[MamaDearest]

. Universal Carbon Taxes the solution.

Al Gore has that new home on the precipice of the ocean where it might be swallowed up one day (per his own prediction). Am sure the gullible feel sorry for him and his family. The gullible just might want to send their donations to him directly!

[epithermal]

[Cold Heart]

I hope it holds off for a couple more hours. We’re going riding on the beach as soon as I get done here. Both my horse & I are lame and incapable of getting back to the trailer in the 15-20 minutes it takes for the tsunami to hit. Well, horse might make it, he’ll dump me as soon as the shaking starts.

[In Maryland]

I think that’s called “Horse Sense”! LOL

[Disambiguator]

Tsunami Struck!

[La Enchiladita]

Crank it up!!
I love the screaming at the beginning, LOL.

[Cold Heart]

Interesting article. Like the land in Japan which sunk and remains under sea, the Oregon and Washington coast will also sink, putting some coastline under water. The area we ride horses on the beach has some big stumps where there used to be a forest. The stumps are under water at high tide.

[La Enchiladita]

I learned about this from a special program NOVA just did about the Japan earthquake and tsunami.... maybe you can find it at the PBS website. I know they have shakers up in Washington sometimes, but are not as well known as our EQs here in California. It feels like we are SOOOOOO overdue.