9.0 earthquakes are not unusual in the history of the earth. There’s evidence along the Washington-Oregon coast of several such earthquakes in the past 1,000 years. In the Ring of Fire such a thing is not unexpected in the least and anyone who does not think this can happen in that region is in for a potential surprise.
I’m expecting a 9.0 to hit the PacNW any time now.
LOTS
of individual unusual, rare occurrances can be
rationalized
away.
A growing pile of them . . .
not so easily done—if integrity and honesty is involved in the assessment.