The Pacific Northwest has a lot of active volcanos and the very real potential for a catastrophic earthquake all because of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This long article has a good summary of recent research.
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07/23/2014 1:51:59 PM PDT by
JimSEA
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The last “big one,” which ruptured along the fault’s entire length, struck in 1700, and recent research suggests that the return interval for such magnitude-9 megathrust events is roughly every 400 to 600 years. That one apparently generated a huge tidal wave that hit Japan in January, 1700.
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07/23/2014 2:04:26 PM PDT by
Fiji Hill
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07/23/2014 2:16:56 PM PDT by
frithguild
(The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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Damn us all for causing this. When will we learn that the impact of global coolingwarmingsomething is killing this planet. Death to the automobile. Save the whales. Get me AlGore on the line immediately. Meat is murder!!! What is wrong with you racist a-holes!?!?!
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