Posted on 01/27/2021 8:26:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
The last huge earthquake, the last really “Big One” to hit the Pacific Northwest Coast, struck around 9 p.m. on Jan. 26, 1700 — 321 years ago.
Called Cascadia, the magnitude 9.0 quake caused the entire Pacific Northwest coastline to suddenly drop 3 to 6 feet and sent a 33-foot high tsunami across the ocean to Japan.
The last huge earthquake, the last really “Big One” to hit the Pacific Northwest Coast, struck around 9 p.m. on Jan. 26, 1700 — 321 years ago.
Called Cascadia, the magnitude 9.0 quake caused the entire Pacific Northwest coastline to suddenly drop 3 to 6 feet and sent a 33-foot high tsunami across the ocean to Japan.
“Japanese sources document this earthquake, which is the earliest documented historical event in Western Washington. Other evidence includes drowned groves of red cedars and Sitka spruces in the Pacific Northwest. Indian legends corroborate the cataclysmic occurrence,” according to HistoryLink.
The earthquake ruptured what is known as the Cascadia subduction zone from British Columbia to northern California — the area of overlap between two of the tectonic plates that make up the earth’s surface, the Juan de Fuca plate and the North American plate.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
Hiden Biden and Brian Williams were there......................
And everybody said, “Juan De Fuca was that???”
“Backwoods: Move away from cliffs and steep embankments where there might be falling debris or a landslide.”
LOL. Right. The earthquake will be over in a minute, maybe two or three tops. In an M9, you can’t stand up or walk. You aren’t going to get very far away from cliffs in that short time with the ground violently shaking.
Anyone else in the Seattle area in 2001 for the:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nisqually_earthquake
It was only 6.8 but it brought thew city to it’s knees for days.
” and sent a 33-foot high tsunami across the ocean to Japan.”
Premptive strike for Pearl Harbor.
It’s expected that an M9 earthquake will last six minutes.
Wow. Imagine getting knocked on your ass over and over and over for six minutes.
“When it hits, Where will you be?”
Clamming?
A 2015 article from the New Yorker magazine on this issue:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
This earthquake was confirmed by Japanese records from 1700.
Seattle kids prepare for an 8.0 earthquake in 'The Big Shaker' simulator
was in my office on the 16th floor downtown seattle down
the street from the Fed Building on 2nd Ave.
scary stuff.
“If you are driving, stop your vehicle.”
and pray the vehicle behind you stops!
My youngest daughter was at a different school when this happened, and she noticed the same thing that the worms were coming up from underground. The kids were freaking out by that.
The 9.0 is nothing more than a guess. There were no quake monitors in 1700.
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