Heading out for coffee and some time at the store. Big rain heading this way in a day or two - couple inches forecast.
318 years ago today, a Mag 9 earthquake hit the Cascadian Subduction Zone causing a tsunami that reached Japan. From Wired:
JAN. 26, 1700: NORTHWEST QUAKE UNLEASHES TRANS-PACIFIC TSUNAMI
1700: A massive earthquake strikes the Pacific Northwest coast, sending a tsunami racing across the ocean all the way to Japan.
The earthquake was likely around magnitude 9 and occurred in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The oceanic crust there is being forced beneath the North American Plate along 680 miles of the coastline between Mendocino in northern California and Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Subduction zones are capable of generating the largest earthquakes on Earth, including the 2004 magnitude 9.2 in Sumatra that caused the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami.
We are seriously underprepared.
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