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The New Yorker wrote about a similar issue for Oregon and Washington, in a 2015 article called “The Really Big One”. It would appear that the entire west coast
by BurritoAlPastor 7y ago
The New Yorker wrote about a similar issue for Oregon and Washington, in a 2015 article called “The Really Big One”. It would appear that the entire west coast of the United States is uninhabitable on a geologic timescale, and yet... here we are!
- thunderbird120 7y agoThat's a bit like saying that Japan is uninhabitable because it experience devastating >9.0 earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis perhaps 1-2 times per millennia as seen most recently in 2011. Disasters happen but people rebuild, that's just the way it is. A full rupture of the Cascadia subduction[1] zone that that article[2] references would be devastating but would hardly end human occupation of the U.S. west coast. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone [2]https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
- mrep 7y agoThat article was absolute garbage. They completely over-exaggerated things especially related to the waves considering seattle is in a bay. There's a reddit AMA thread with actual earthquake experts that debunks a lot of the exaggerations [0]. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3da1mh/we_are_earthquake_experts_ask_us_anything_about/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3da1mh/we_are_earthqu...