Hiden Biden and Brian Williams were there......................
And everybody said, “Juan De Fuca was that???”
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.
A 2015 article from the New Yorker magazine on this issue:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
Seattle kids prepare for an 8.0 earthquake in 'The Big Shaker' simulator
The 9.0 is nothing more than a guess. There were no quake monitors in 1700.
An Oregonian article said everything west of I5 would be destroyed or rendered unusable. There is a bill in the Oregon legislature to research where to put the survivors after it hits.
And, how many present politicians were, still, in political office, at the time?
Anyone interested in this should read Cascadia’s Fault.
Also amusing, in June of 2019 Oregon repealed a 1995 prohibition on constructing new public facilities within the tsunami-inundation zone.
Municipalities are free to build schools, hospitals, prisons, other high-occupancy buildings, firehouses, and police stations in areas that will be destroyed when the tsunami strikes.
Does anybody remember the Great Tohoku quake in Japan in 2011? That was exactly the kind of subduction zone that the Cascadia is. And yes, that one hit 9.0. If the Cascadia lets go, and does what they call a ‘full 9 rip’, it will affect everything from Vancouver BC all the way down to northern California.
I was in Western Washington for the Nisqually quake in 2001. A 6.8 is scary enough. I don’t ever want to live through a 9.0.
Thanks for this fascinating bit of quake history.
I hope this piece of history never repeats itself!