[Plutarch]

Why bother with the building codes? The buildings surviving the mega quake will just be swept away 20 minutes later by the mega Tsunami.

[CedarDave]

Why bother with the building codes? The buildings surviving the mega quake will just be swept away 20 minutes later by the mega Tsunami.

Unfortunately, that is all too likely to occur.

[thackney]

The subduction zone earthquake will cause a tsunami in Japan, not Washington. Just as the ~9.0 earthquake on January 26, 1700 did back then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake