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Take your hands and hold them palms down, middle fingertips touching. Your right hand represents the North American tectonic plate, which bears on its back, among other things, our entire continent, from One World Trade Center to the Space Needle, in Seattle. Your left hand represents an oceanic plate called Juan de Fuca, ninety thousand square miles in size. The place where they meet is the Cascadia subduction zone. Now slide your left hand under your right one. That is what the Juan de Fuca plate is doing: slipping steadily beneath North America. When you try it, your right hand will slide up your left arm, as if you were pushing up your sleeve. That is what North America is not doing. It is stuck, wedged tight against the surface of the other plate.
Without moving your hands, curl your right knuckles up, so that they point toward the ceiling. Under pressure from Juan de Fuca, the stuck edge of North America is bulging upward and compressing eastward, at the rate of, respectively, three to four millimetres and thirty to forty millimetres a year. It can do so for quite some time, because, as continent stuff goes, it is young, made of rock that is still relatively elastic. (Rocks, like us, get stiffer as they age.) But it cannot do so indefinitely. There is a backstop—the craton, that ancient unbudgeable mass at the center of the continent—and, sooner or later, North America will rebound like a spring. If, on that occasion, only the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone gives way—your first two fingers, say—the magnitude of the resulting quake will be somewhere between 8.0 and 8.6. That's the big one. If the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2. That's the very big one.
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It won't compare to what 'climate change' is going to do.[It reminds me of the movie 'At the Beach'. I have to finish watching that. Another potential catastrophe, but still less than ...]
Edits: 04/29/16
Did you mean "On The Beach" by any chance, or am I thinking of a completely different movie?
I didn't see the ending. I sort of got bored at that point. Any surprises? Overall, I liked it, and as it is on YouTube, I hope to have the opportunity to finish it. Sometimes, one can take only so much doomerism.[I'm rewatching it now. Boredom was not the word to use. Fear, maybe. A rather excellent movie.]
Edits: 05/01/16
The Really Big EQ is an act of nature and not a thing people can do to STOP it. Even the Most Robust structures can only take so much.
That's as opposed to Climate Change.
People SEEM to have a lot to do with it. 7 BILLION people are an incredible load on the eco system of the planet. TOTAL of all energy consumption of my house on a monthly basis might even approach 1 megawatt hour. (=1000KWh) ALL but a tiny percentage ends up as heat.
Don't get me started on 'The Limits To Growth'.
Too much is never enough
"my house on a monthly basis might even approach 1 megawatt hour. (=1000KWh) ALL but a tiny percentage ends up as heat. "
Aha! So, it's all your fault!
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Yes, I'm adding natural GAS and of course Electric energy. Water is pumped and processed. Even the fuel you use in your car is highly processed. If I added MY share of food transportation costs to my 'house' total, no telling how much energy I use directly or indirectly.
Modern living is VERY energy intensive. As it turns out, a modest Class 'A' system is a drop in the bucket. At least in use. To manufacture? Something else again.
Too much is never enough
Now is a good time to buy future beach front properties on what will be the shores of Arizona Bay.
...again.
Yeah, kind of like "Man-caused" global warming, for which there also is no scientific evidence.
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...climate changing effect of CO2 for which there tons of evidence.
Can you prove gravity to me?
.., I actually thought that those Mexican girls really liked me. They kept on whispering, "Juan De Fuca? Juan De Fuca? Juan..?"
We've been studying the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) since its last tremor back in 1700 AD. Hopefully, it won't be back in our lifetime, but I fear for the next generations who might felt its wrath...
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
Fuca upped.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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Sucks for you.
Living in WI. I only have to put up with F==king cold for 4-5 months, I don't have to worry about 1/2 my state sliding into the pacific when the big one comes.
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I am not at all concerned. The new Oregon coastline will have even better looking rocks as time will not have worn them down...But I bet the fault underneath Berkeley will go first.
We can always flee to our off shore digs when the riots start...
All I got is well, two months of MREs, 20 days water, then it could come down to hunting fellow man. The most dangerous game :)
I plan of sitting on the porch with a nice glass of water, waiting game. ..
In a couple thousand years New York will be under water, or not.
I like the idea of off shore digs. I have a few friends with boats, but only one with a sail boat.
In terms of NY, I hope the people from LA don't come here :)
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Nice. Now, add it to your original post. You DO know how to edit a post?
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ain't gonna happen though
> > Short SNIP from a long article:
But no attribution. Please fix that.
Fax mentis incendium gloria cultum, et cetera, et cetera...
Memo bis punitor delicatum! It's all there, black and white,
clear as crystal! Blah, blah, and so on and so forth ...
Thank you for reminding us left coasters-
we who ride the plates as the rub and subduct
hoping not to be ground up in the great subwoofer
Happy Listening
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