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Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake information

Submitted by Peter Johnston on July 26, 2015 - 8:57am
After a brief search for information on what we might expect in our part of Cascadia (sheltered from the open ocean by Vancouver Island) I found this from the Cascadia Region Earthquake Working Group (which includes some British Columbia people, too). See their website   CREW.org

Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes: A Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake Scenario   (Update 2013)  It gives a good explanation of the situation, what will happen, what the results will be, and so on. It will at least help us know what's happening when we're in it, and gives us the opportunity to plan and prepare.

http://crew.org/sites/default/files/cascadia_subduction_scenario_2013.pdf

 
If you haven't yet read it, the New Yorker article

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one?intcid=mod-most-popular

The Really Big One: An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.  by Kathryn Schulz

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