All they have to do is ask Dutchinese, he’ll tell them the day and the hour of the next big one in plenty of time to get ready.
“The Really Big One”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
“10,000 years of Cascadia earthquakes”
https://projects.oregonlive.com/maps/earthquakes/timeline
Waiting for the Big One - Peter Gabriel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvBa-aC1hvw
An older article stated everything west of I5 freeway would be destroyed or rendered useless due to infrastructure damage. A view of the USGS earthquake website shows hundreds of earthquakes over the past month or more in Washington, California and Idaho. But Oregon has very few. Locked and loaded.