Posted on 01/03/2005 12:34:11 PM PST by Pyro7480
Seattle has to worry about Mt. Rainier.
Chance of a caldera blast at Yellowstone in any given year is microscopic. It's 1) not overdue and 2) isn't showing any particular signs of a caldera blast.
People are a bit over-focused on these exceedingly rare,very spectacular disasters.
For example, Salt Lake City Utah is sitting on old lake goop. It actually is overdue for a 7.0-7.5 quake. It would kill over 8,000 people, do hundreds of billions of dollars of damage and may not merely be possible in the next 20-50 years (or tomorrow) it may be LIKELY in the next 50 years. I've read only 5% of people that live there have quake insurance. I never ever see such possibilities mentioned on FR by anyone but myself. It's well documented and there's been an awareness campaign but I don't get the attention that the average Utahan (sp?) really thinks about it.
Same goes for Charleston South Carolina. Fortunately the recurrance time for the 1886 quake seems to be 500+ years, but even a smaller quake there would do a lot of damage.
At least since 1964
Don't worry. Just get yourselves a nice lifevest or boat so when it hits you are ready.
"And considering that in California, it's against the law to be armed to the teeth "
In some areas of Sun City, having teeth IS being armed ...
Much of the California coast is bordered by seacliffs - which minimize the tsunami risk. However, the low-lying sandy beach and bay areas should have something like that.
And traffic jams are a great place to drown....
what are you telling me?
What do you know...and when did you know it?
>> And traffic jams are a great place to drown....<<
Or get hit by a meteor...
I don't have to worry about tsunamis, volcanos, earthquakes, hurricanes where I live but I could worry about an asteroid.
If the name hadn't been changed from Mt Tahoma or Mt Tacoma (depending on whom you believe), Seattle wouldn't have to look over their shoulder.
Correction:meteor
There are lots of possibles in life. Right now this reminds me of Hollywood being scared that they might be the target of a terrorism attack. For the record, Hilo, Hawaii had a tusnami back in 1946.
Always nice to have a hobby.
You're more likely to die in a nuclear explosion than a tsunami.
These stories will do that to you.
Interestingly the average person's chance of dying from an asteroid impact is the same as their chance of dying in an airplane crash.
Weeeelllll, I suppose. But maybe the water from the tsunami would moderate the impact some....
Actually, though, if there ever was a real-live tsunami alert on the West Coast, I suspect a lot of the folks trying to drive to safety really would drown in the traffic jam.
I think a tsunami down Puget Sound would be really ugly, though. The relatively narrow passage would create a pretty tall wave, and probably kill a lot of the many people who live along the shore.
Prolly a whole lot better chance of getting away if you took a bicycle. Or lived in Colorado.
I've seen some, mostly on the North Coast. That's the real danger zone, FYI. It's vertical faults (such as Alaska '64 and other events on other trenches) that one must worry about. Even a 10.0 on the horizontally moving San Andreas would, at most, create small local tsunamis (from undersea landslides). Personally I worry more about a repeat of Alaska '64 than anything on the Cascadia. The Cascadia is a dying trench - there is only a sliver of the Gorda Plate left and once it goes down, the Cascadia will be dead. Whereas, the Aleutian Trench is full on and is gulping down the entire northern portion of the Pacific Plate. Another big shaker there, and it would be pretty bad. Many areas between Santa Cruz and Juneau which were not very developed along the coast are now quite dense with development. Know those evacuation routes!
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