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Great article from The New Yorker about this, also from 2015: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one https://www.newyorker.com/magazin

• llsf 2y ago
  That article scared me. The Cascadia Fault is a scary one. We are not (and arguably cannot really) prepared for an earthquake of that magnitude.
• throwaway290 2y ago
  > It will not look like a Hokusai-style wave, rising up from the surface of the sea and breaking from above. It will look like the whole ocean, elevated, overtaking land. Nor will it be made only of water—not once it reaches the shore. This is true and why tsunamis are scary af. Take this and try to imagine a taller tsunami https://youtu.be/8zoX9H6xiPo https://youtu.be/8zoX9H6xiPo. It's actually hard because it doesn't even feel like a wave of some height. It feels like ocean rising. Also "we are 300 years into a 250 year disaster cycle" is not a thing you want to read on a Monday. Though it looks like they got the cycle length just by dividing the total years by total number of previous earthquakes, so who knows if it's correct