The predictions I've seen by folks much more capable than me suggest a death toll in the 5-10K range for a magnitude 9 Cascadia quake. They also say we could l

The predictions I've seen by folks much more capable than me suggest a death toll in the 5-10K range for a magnitude 9 Cascadia quake. They also say we could lose 10-20% of all the structures. No doubt about it, this would be devastating. It would probably be decades before we fully rebuilt everything. But it certainly wouldn't make the west coast uninhabitable, thought it would likely make it very inconvenient for a few months at least.