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    Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America

    By Jerry Thompson and Simon Winchester

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    There is a crack in the earth’s crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from Northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic timeat least thirty-six major events in the last 10,000 years. This fault generates a monster earthquake about every 500 years. And the monster is due to return at any time. It could happen 200 years from now, or it could be tonight.

    The Cascadia Subduction Zone is virtually identical to the offshore fault that wrecked Sumatra in 2004. It will generate the same earthquake we saw in Sumatra, at magnitude nine or higher, sending crippling shockwaves across a far wider area than any California quake. Slamming into Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver, it will send tidal waves to the shores of Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, damaging the economies of the Pacific Rim countries and their trading partners for years to come.

    In light of recent massive quakes in Haiti, Chile, and Mexico, Cascadia’s Fault not only tells the story of this potentially devastating earthquake and the tsunamis it will spawn, it also warns us about an impending crisis almost unprecedented in modern history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCounterpoint
    Release dateMar 10, 2012
    ISBN9781619020863
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    Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
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    Jerry Thompson

    JERRY THOMPSON has worked for more than thirty years as a writer, director and journalist in Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver. He has also been a network news correspondent and a documentary film producer for such CBC programs as The National, The Journal and the fifth estate. His articles have appeared in Equinox, Reader’s Digest and Vancouver magazine. Thompson lives in Sechelt, B.C.

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    • 5/5
      This book is a must-read for everyone living in the Pacific Northwest. The Cascidia subduction zone has the potential to produce an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 or above. Couple with that will be a huge tsunami, on the order of the one that hit Japan in 2011. 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. If you spend a lot of time on the beach, you should have that knowledge too. The area where I live was mentioned many times in this book and I find that disturbing, yet also encouraging. Much research has gone into learning about the faults that lie off the northwest coast. This knowledge can help us all plan for the coming event, whether it happens tomorrow or 30 years from now. It will happen. History proves that this fault zone can produce some mega-events. This was one book that I literally could not put down. I spent most of an entire weekend reading it cover to cover. The detective work behind the scientific discoveries was fascinating. How the geologists determined the dates of past earthquakes and tsunamis using the avilable evidence in the earth, and even in written records from the 1700's, was absolutely fascinating. They have proved beyond a doubt that there is a potential for huge events on this coast. No one can predict when it will happen though. My advice? Read this book. Then look up the tsunami inundation maps for your area online. They are there for all the coastal areas, even the small towns. Whenever you are near the coast, or playing at the beach, look around you and memorize the route you'd have to take to reach high ground. If the ground starts shaking, you are better prepared to retreat to high ground before the arrival of the tsunami, which could happen within minutes (or seconds, depending on the location of the epicenter) of the earthquake ending. All of us living on the coast are at risk and should be aware of how to take care of ourselves and our families in the event that the Cascadia Subduction Zone rips loose with a 9.0 earthquake followed by a mega-tsunami. You need to read this book!
    • 5/5
      Coming on the heels of the Japan quake of March 2011, it strikes a great balance between sensationalism and science journalism. It is a sensational event, Cascidian Earthquake. It is also a great scientific detective story of how geophysicists came to recognize that it could happen.
    • 3/5
      It was an informative book, and it was very well written.
    • 4/5
      You have to read this book. That's not a suggestion. That Simon Winchester wrote the introduction speaks volumes to me, as his A Crack in the Edge of the World placed the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake in its proper geological perspective. This is not only the history of a future event, but the history of its acceptance as a more than probable event within the life span of the youngest of us. Read this if you live on the West Coast!
    • 4/5
      Fascinating and accessible book that traces the scientific discoveries of the danger of the Cascadia fault and how to prepare for an eventual quake/tsunami. Really enjoyed it.