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OK. I want to play too!
The fires were triggered by a meteor strike or low air burst....
I remember being all by myself on a long canoe trip up in Canada with a blood red sun and smoke-filled air. Always wondered about how close the fires might be and what danger I might have been in. At least I knew it was just a fire and not the end of the world.
The following is old news (at least three years or so?). I’m sure you’ve heard of it, but if not you can google any of these terms. The geologist that discovered it and put it all together is from the USGS out of the University of Washington, Brian Atwater.
“Japanese written records of the resulting damage, combined with North American geology and tree-ring studies, enabled scientists to determine that the tsunami had been triggered by a Pacific Northwest earthquake, of approximate magnitude 9, on the evening of January 26, 1700.”