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Cascadia Quake Potentially More Damaging than San Andreas or Japan’s Tōhoku
March 11, 2012
In “Quake catastrophe like Japan's could hit Pacific Northwest, new data show” M. Alex Johnson of msnbc.com also reports on last month’s reports at the American Association for the Advancement of Science – noting that the Cascadia quake has numerous parallels with Japan’s Tōhoku disaster one year ago.
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15% Chance of Local Cascadia Quake & Tsunami in Next 50-60 Years
March 11, 2012
According to Bill Steele, the public is woefully unprepared for a certain disaster: we just don’t know when. Mr. Steele is Seismology Lab Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network (PNSN) at the University of Washington Department of Earth and Space Sciences where he has worked since 1993.
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In Memory of the 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami
March 11, 2012
Just a brief note to commemorate those whose lives have been disrupted and lost by the Tōhoku disaster one year ago today.