Cascadia Earthquake Aritcle

[B34NS]

Thanks for posting that follow up post River-8.

I was going to be nice given that she's a newbie to real journalism. She invented quite a few new words inadvertantently in her first post, while trying to sensationlize the piece and generate fear. I guess book reviewers don't use spellcheck.
In her follow up post, which is basically a giant walk back, with no apology for attempting to inspire panic and fear in people with whom she doesn't share a zipcode with, but merely enjoys vacationing around.

As shotgun said so well, seismic dangers are something engrained into you when you grow up out here.

Crazy she tells people not to visit a tsunami region ever?! She's nuts! The CA, Oregon, Washington, BC, coast is one of the reasons why you DO come and visit the west. Haha what's her next piece going to look like when she's on vacation "summering" out here next, maybe she'll find out we have volcanoes on the other side of the "inundation zone" Maybe she'll quit mountain biking in the cascades.

 

[22-rimfire]

She did sensationalize the original piece and I think intentionally. She is a young writer and publicity is good for her as long as she has her facts straight. I like the mirror analogy. It really doesn't take much to isolate a given town or city when there are natural barriers such as bridges and so forth in a large regional earthquake.

I don't live there and I was familiar with a lot of the seismic potential in the region. We have our own earthquake potentials in my area although you seldom feel an earthquake. But regionally the New Madrid would cause significant damage and would cause damage even as far east as East TN to some degree.