The Big One is way overdue.
oh no, we’re all gonna die!
Annals of Seismology JULY 20, 2015 ISSUE
The Really Big One
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.
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If the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2. That’s the very big one.