![]() ![]() Anyone living or working within 125 miles of the coast should read this book and be familiar with the tsunami evacuation routes in your area. Couple with that will be a huge tsunami, on the order of the one that hit Japan in 2011. The Cascidia subduction zone has the potential to produce an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 or above. This book is a must-read for everyone living in the Pacific Northwest. ![]() Written by a journalist who has been following this story for twenty-five years, Cascadia’s Fault tells the tale of this devastating future earthquake and the tsunamis it will spawn. ![]() Cascadia’s fault will wreck dozens of smaller towns and coastal villages - and no one in these places will be able to call their neighbours for help. It will send crippling shockwaves across a far wider area than any of the California quakes you’ve ever heard about, slamming five cities at the same time: Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Portland and Sacramento. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is virtually identical to the offshore fault that wrecked Sumatra in 2004, and it will generate the same type of earthquake, a magnitude nine or higher. Without a doubt, the coming quake is one day closer today than it was yesterday. ![]() There is roughly a thirty percent chance that it could happen again within the next fifty years. About every 500 years this fault generates a monster earthquake. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a crack in the earth’s crust, roughly fifty kilometres offshore, running 1,100 kilometres from northern Vancouver Island to northern California. ![]()
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