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Originally Posted by O-tacular
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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I just read that article actually, there are a ton of documentaries on TV about it already. The best we can do here is have a comprehensive disaster plan, and have drills like they do in Japan. One thing that probably hasn't been planned is where will people go if suddenly hundreds of thousands of people here and maybe millions in the US are displaced, and that's a likely scenario.
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Originally Posted by Beedok
Most of Canada is safe from anything short of an asteroid impact.
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Most of the rest of us could get hit by a Tornado or something, but that's not even close to the scale of a megathrust earthquake lol. Flooding is a concern for a lot of us too, Calgary will get hit pretty bad one day if we don't come up with some sort of diversion plan, 2013 was more like a 1 in 60 flood, so it will flood much worse at some point. Of course the biggest threat is probably Yellowstone, we're all fucked if that thing blows lol.
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