(Apologies to HPL)
According to this article in the New Yorker the city of Seattle is doomed to imminent destruction by earthquake. Thirteen thousand dead, thirty thousand injured, more than a million people displaced, the economy collapsed and no electricity, drinking water, or sewage systems for a year or more.
And it's not just Seattle.
That's what some are predicting will happen if the "long overdue" a full-margin rupture quake takes place along the Cascadia subduction zone. Such a quake would likely hit between an 8.7 and 9.2 (Richter) magnitude and be followed by a "seven-hundred-mile liquid wall that will reach the Northwest coast … fifteen minutes after the earthquake begins".
The director of this FEMA region told the New Yorker that "our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast".
So anyone packing up?
According to this article in the New Yorker the city of Seattle is doomed to imminent destruction by earthquake. Thirteen thousand dead, thirty thousand injured, more than a million people displaced, the economy collapsed and no electricity, drinking water, or sewage systems for a year or more.
And it's not just Seattle.
That's what some are predicting will happen if the "long overdue" a full-margin rupture quake takes place along the Cascadia subduction zone. Such a quake would likely hit between an 8.7 and 9.2 (Richter) magnitude and be followed by a "seven-hundred-mile liquid wall that will reach the Northwest coast … fifteen minutes after the earthquake begins".
The director of this FEMA region told the New Yorker that "our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast".
So anyone packing up?
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1CDxuuM
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