Posted on 12/15/2009 1:08:32 PM PST by decimon
Ahhhh! So THAT’S why our gate fell down sometime last night.
When I was researching the Cascadia Subduction Zone about 15 years ago, I talked with Dr. Frank Gonzales of U. of Washington. He told me that geologists and seismologists had found beach sand as far inland as 11 miles up river channels on the Oregon and Washington coasts. The Indian tribes in the area have oral histories that describe how inland Indians went to the coast and found that the coastal villages and people were simply not there.
Dr. Gonzales said that (at that time) there were two working theories about the "big one" that was due; one was that the "big one" would be a magnitude 9 quake that would shake the region for up to 45 minutes, the other was what he described as "the decade from hell" in which the region would be wracked with mag. 8 quakes periodically for about a decade. Either way, it's potentially quite bad. It will make hurricane Katrina look like a tailgate party by comparison.
Great! And I work on the 22nd floor.
All I have to do is wait until my ranch becomes beachfront property.
Look on the bright side - you won't need an elevator to reach street level.
Nope. There exists geologic evidence of tsunamis along the Pacific Northwest coastline, and they were very, very big ones, too.
I live in southwest Washington, 800 ft. above the Columibia River and fifty miles from the Pacific.
My only fear about a large subduction earthquake is that it might happen during the wettest part of the year. Landslides due to water-ladden hillsides collapsing would kill a great many people and block highways preventing disaster relief.
If it improves the traffic problem then whats the issue?
More panicky gotta get attention news that I will make one comment for and then move on..NEXT, gotta save the poor flightless penguins at the North Pole.
Your neighborhood?
After the big one in ‘46, my folks moved away from the Georgia Straight earthquake zone.
At that time, the chimney fell off our house, and my father told me the fields were undulating like the sea.
I live in a mountain valley now, and our only road out is subject to avalanches yearly - every couple of weeks in late winter, actually, due to heavy snowfall.
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Thanks for the correction.
I read some more and learned being on the upper side of the subduction is no protection.
Merry Christmas.
Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you, too.
Best post of the year.
And Queen Christine is in Copenhagen!!!!!!!!!!! What on earth is she thinking? This could all go at any second! What will we do?
That’s ok. We just bought a house on the coast, remember?
It is obviously just a matter of time before the “big one” - and, if just based on the periods between previous events, we are due. I was talking to a environmental geologist and some others because they were laughing about some woman that has a car-topper on her van filled with emergency supplies. She lived in Redmond and works in Seattle. While she did seem a bit hysterical, I did comment that with those supplies, she might do a lot better than others that are stuck in Seattle for a week or more after the big one hits. Access into and out of Seattle is primarily over large bridges, which will only serve as artificial reefs for any rescue efforts.
Ya know, they could save money by combining activities with H1N1 suppositories.
I heard these were the same people who thought inuendo was an Italian suppository.
Nam Vet
“I heard these were the same people who thought inuendo was an Italian suppository.”
Unless of course you’re referring to *explosive* suppositories, most typically wielded by assassins. The two not being mutually exclusive, you understand.
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