Overdue for an Earthquake?

originally posted by BJ:
That was the worst article I can recall the New Yorker publishing. I wonder what happened with the fact checking. The sensationalist quotes about everything being toast of I-5 were insane.

The story ripped off almost entirely Jerry Thompson's Cascadia's Fault, which offers a much more detailed and nuanced discussion of the topic.

Mind you, I would not want to be on the Long Beach peninsula when the big one hits - those folks will be toast. Instant traffic jam of not very mobile retirees - it's a problem.
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I liked the image of canoes in trees from the 18th century.
 
Dianne Rehm is interviewing on NPR the author along with the scientist whose work the article profiles. Not too much sensationalism in this interview.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by BJ:
That was the worst article I can recall the New Yorker publishing. I wonder what happened with the fact checking. The sensationalist quotes about everything being toast of I-5 were insane.

The story ripped off almost entirely Jerry Thompson's Cascadia's Fault, which offers a much more detailed and nuanced discussion of the topic.

Mind you, I would not want to be on the Long Beach peninsula when the big one hits - those folks will be toast. Instant traffic jam of not very mobile retirees - it's a problem.
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I liked the image of canoes in trees from the 18th century.
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after the alaska earthquake there was seaweed in the trees above valdez narrows 165 feet above sea level.
 
Interesting. I was just going through shelves of books on earthquakes and was glancing through them. That Juan de Fuca Plate is one nasty mother! Difficult to predict when they will slip n' slide, but said much of coastal NW can be hit by tsunamis, sorry to 'float your boat', as it were.
 
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