Yesterday was the 325th anniversary of the last magnitude 9 earthquake to hit Cascadia. In honor of this event, I’m not doing #MisconceptionMonday, and will instead talk about some steps you can take to be prepared for earthquakes.
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If you haven’t already done so, take a bit of time to hear about the 1700 Great Cascadia quake. The story about how the event was discovered, how people learned about its size and timing, is one of the great mystery stories in Earth Science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RmprLm3bI
We can’t predict when the next Great earthquake (an event >M8) will hit Cascadia, but we do know that it will. And we know that we need to be prepared. So let’s talk about how to do that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RmprLm3bI
https://www.tiktok.com/@terraexplore/video/7325947565868928287?_r=1&_t=ZP-8tON3DEbRgk
To be clear, no one is shaken to death.