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Originally Posted by Calgarian
They say it will be almost identical to the one in Japan a few years ago. The worst thing about the Cascadia Fault is that it doesn't make any noise until it ruptures, so people get very complacent. Vancouver will be pretty well demolished if they get a 9.0 or bigger, and Victoria could very well be wiped off the map by a Tsunami if the earthquake is centered south of Vancouver Island. The worst part of all of this is that we are so unprepared to deal with this as a country.
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So you read the article too then? It was terrifying reading the description of how it will go down, from it starting with barking dogs, to the first rumblings, then the mudslides and culminating with the Tsunami. What is terrible is that earthquake proofing only seems to apply to buildings built after the code was created (At least in the Portland example). We don't even have preliminary warning systems like the Japanese either who at least can detect the low frequency first wave. People here will have mere minutes to escape if they aren't already buried. The cities of the Pacific NW are essentially living on borrowed time.
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