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Old 03-12-2011, 06:40 AM   #1
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Pacific NW of U.S. faces same earthquake possibilities as Japan

Pacific Northwest Faces Nearly Identical Risks to Japanese Quake

ScienceDaily (Mar. 11, 2011) — It's being called one of the largest recorded earthquakes in world history. Also, according to Robert Yeats, "This is our wake up call."

Japan today is struggling with the aftermath of a massive 8.9 earthquake on a subduction zone, a short distance offshore, which unleashed a devastating tsunami that killed hundreds and has turned large parts of cities into rubble.

Yeats, a professor emeritus of geology at Oregon State University, said that if people didn't already get the message from recent disasters in Sumatra and Chile, they should pay attention now.

"This is an earthquake of the same type, with about the same magnitude and proximity that we face here in the Pacific Northwest from the Cascadia Subduction Zone," Yeats said. "What you are seeing in Japan today is what you will also see in our future. Except they are better prepared than we are."
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0311165726.htm


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Old 03-12-2011, 11:14 AM   #2
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Thanks kennny I was wondering about that with the fairly big quakes in Alaska too.
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Old 03-12-2011, 12:30 PM   #3
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Thanks kennny I was wondering about that with the fairly big quakes in Alaska too.
"Fairly big" is a bit of an understatement-- there was one in 1964 that was around 3 times more powerful than this week's Japan quake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake
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"Fairly big" is a bit of an understatement-- there was one in 1964 that was around 3 times more powerful than this week's Japan quake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake
Which caused a tsunami that rolled into the Alberni Inlet on Vancouver Island's west coast, March 27, 1964.

Tsunami slams B.C. coast ~ CBC video archive
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Just before midnight on March 27, 1964, the first of six massive waves strikes Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. Sparked by the deadly Good Friday earthquake in Alaska a few hours earlier, a two-storey "wall of water" topples trees, flings cars into buildings and rips houses from their foundations. CBC Television talks to residents as they struggle to recover.
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Old 03-12-2011, 01:50 PM   #5
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we have been under a "when" not "if" mentality as long as I have lived here. just prior to buying this place I had had a project wiring the FEMA center, and paid extremely close attention to all of the maps detailing the lehars from the volcanoes, tsunami paths, and known existing fault lines. I'm in just about as good a place as possible as one can be in western Washington. given that, though, one cannot become a total hermit, and it is necessary to leave the safety cocoon occasionally
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This made me think of the book The Orphan Tsunami of 1700-- my copy is a slightly less than legitimate digital copy, so I checked to see if there is a legit ebook version, and found that it is a free Google book as a downloadable PDF:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Xow...page&q&f=false
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Which caused a tsunami that rolled into the Alberni Inlet on Vancouver Island's west coast, March 27, 1964.

Tsunami slams B.C. coast ~ CBC video archive
Oh wow. Love that archival footage!
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"Fairly big" is a bit of an understatement-- there was one in 1964 that was around 3 times more powerful than this week's Japan quake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake
my family left Alaska right before that happened (a month or two). I was quite little and have few memories of the event, but for my folks talking about friends that suffered
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Most of Oregon and Washington are amazingly unprepared for the big one. In the Portland area we are sitting on numerous minor faults and a major one just off the coast. The Willamette river at the Portland waterfront is at 27 feet and is 50+ miles inland.

So yes. When (not if) it happens, it's going to be a mess.
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Most of Oregon and Washington are amazingly unprepared for the big one. In the Portland area we are sitting on numerous minor faults and a major one just off the coast. The Willamette river at the Portland waterfront is at 27 feet and is 50+ miles inland.

So yes. When (not if) it happens, it's going to be a mess.
yes, we are COMPLETELY unprepared
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