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Everything West of Interstate 5 Will Be Toast,” Massive Natural Disaster Coming[W:35] (1 Viewer)

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“It is coming. it is a certainty […] more than ten-thousand will die,” says Fox news anchor Shepard Smith.
“Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast,” a FEMA official told Kathryn Schulz of the New Yorker. “When the next full-margin rupture happens, that region will suffer the worst natural disaster in the history of North America,” Schulz wrote about an anticipated future mega-quake.
“The worst natural disaster in the history of America is coming […] if I lived right now in the Pacific Northwest I would be considering moving — seriously,” Fox newscaster Shepard Smith warned his audience before going on to explain how a “colossal earthquake and […] tsunami” will likely strike the Pacific Northwest in the not too distant future.
“They [scientists] are all in agreement, it is absolutely coming,”said Smith, “a wall of water […] up to a hundred feet high and up to seven-hundred feet across.
“Houses […] dump-trucks […] schools” will be washed away, “thousands and thousands will not escape.”

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“Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, and Olympia, Salem and Eugene wiped out. Altogether about 7 million people and that’s not including tourists.”
“These massive 9.2 earthquakes […] happen at regular intervals […] on average, according to scientists, about every 240 years,” said Smith.
The segment, which was based on the New Yorker’s write-up, also featured top Astrophysicist Michio Kaku. Shockingly during the broadcast Kaku explained how the Cascadia Fault has already yielded evidence to “scientists” showing how “we could be long overdue for another big one.”
“In the inundation zone we have 70,000 that have almost no clue as to what could happen,” said Kaku. Unfortunatly Smith already pointed out that the massive tsunami would likely hit about “fifteen minutes” after the earthquake leaving no time for people to flee.
Kaku also offered some advice, saying, “I would think twice” about living in the Pacific Northwest.”
“In the lifetime of some of our viewers they may see Seattle and Portland destroyed,” warned Kaku.
In preparation for such a disaster “Oregon OEM is urging all Oregonians to participate in the Great Oregon ShakeOut earthquake drill on Oct. 15 at 10:15 a.m. It is part of the nation’s largest earthquake drill, and last year more than 390,000 Oregonians participated. Register atThe Great Oregon ShakeOut - Oregon ShakeOut Registration or Renewal and take steps to make your family safer.” — KTVZ 21
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FEMA Official Warns: "[?] Everything West of Interstate 5 Will Be Toast," Massive Natural Disaster Coming | The Daily Sheeple
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Wow, I live a 1000 feet from The Puget Sound. I guess I'm screwed.
 
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Top Cat said:



Wow, I live a 1000 feet from The Puget Sound. I guess I'm screwed.
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Keep your fingers crossed or move. The problem is - where are you really safer?

Just about every part of the USA has some kind of threat, either natural or man-made.

About 20 years ago my wife talked me into moving from Southeast Louisiana to Portland Oregon.

We got away from hurricanes and moved to where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen on a regular basis.

:doh

We lived a good bit East of I-5 but nowhere in that area is totally safe. If the earthquakes don't get you the landslides and volcanic eruptions will.

It's all a matter of time and luck.
 
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I've been hearing that California will erupt and slide into the ocean for my entire life and I'm 150 years old.
 
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azgreg said:
I've been hearing that California will erupt and slide into the ocean for my entire life and I'm 150 years old.
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It's incorrect, anyway.

What's really going to happen, if the San Andreas ever cuts loose, is that everything east of it will drop off into the ocean, and all that will be left is this sliver of California.
 
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Tectonics in action. My bet is that the San Andreas will go first giving California some new coastal islands.
 
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I watch the tides carefully in the Galveston bay complex.
It takes about 6 hours for a tide change in Galveston to reach the clear lake entrance,
about 25 miles by water.
Looking at the tide charts for Neah bay vs Seattle it loos like id drops an entire cycle,
so just over 24 hours.
Tide delays are mostly caused by topography, channel size/depth ect.
The bottom line is a tsunami from the Pacific would take sever hours for the
water to pass from Neah bay to Seattle.
Now an earthquake inside the sound would be a very different thing.
 
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azgreg said:
I've been hearing that California will erupt and slide into the ocean for my entire life and I'm 150 years old.
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I go to church with one of the top geologists in the area and he knows (and admires) the geologist who's research this is based on. He's been doing micro-topographical surveys off the Oregon and Washington coast and his findings are pretty scary. Bascially, there's a 35% chance of this earthquake happening in the next 50 years (some are saying that it's closer to 50%). Cali isn't going to fall into the ocean, since the faults there sliding past each other. But the faults (there are two major ones - north and south) off of the Oregon and Washington coasts are subsidence faults, where one tectonic plate is slipping under another. So what happens is that tension is built as the plates move, but the edges stay static until they suddenly release. The problem my friend tells me about with the coastal areas isn't so much the quake or the tsunami, but rather that there are NO bridges in that area that can handle the quake. If it hits, EVERYONE on the coast will be cut off. Their only chance will be people coming down the rivers in boats to pull them out. While Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Longview/Kelso and the whole Willamette Valley will be devastated, at least they be able to get help to them. The coastal areas are going to be royally screwed.
 
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I coulda swore the faults located there move North and South -- and East and West of those faults there's solid rock there, not some shelf that will allow some broken portions of land to simply slip beneath the water line, or maybe I was just hung over in that geology/techtonics class, circa 1993.
 
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Top Cat said:
One day, God is going to Judge the Hippies for their pot-smoking, and runnin around nekid, and America-hatin and wipe 'em all out
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Well, alrighty then.
 
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faithful_servant said:
I go to church with one of the top geologists in the area and he knows (and admires) the geologist who's research this is based on. He's been doing micro-topographical surveys off the Oregon and Washington coast and his findings are pretty scary. Bascially, there's a 35% chance of this earthquake happening in the next 50 years (some are saying that it's closer to 50%). Cali isn't going to fall into the ocean, since the faults there sliding past each other. But the faults (there are two major ones - north and south) off of the Oregon and Washington coasts are subsidence faults, where one tectonic plate is slipping under another. So what happens is that tension is built as the plates move, but the edges stay static until they suddenly release. The problem my friend tells me about with the coastal areas isn't so much the quake or the tsunami, but rather that there are NO bridges in that area that can handle the quake. If it hits, EVERYONE on the coast will be cut off. Their only chance will be people coming down the rivers in boats to pull them out. While Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Longview/Kelso and the whole Willamette Valley will be devastated, at least they be able to get help to them. The coastal areas are going to be royally screwed.
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You and your sciency talk. Show off. :mrgreen:
 
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Ockham said:
I coulda swore the faults located there move North and South -- and East and West of those faults there's solid rock there, not some shelf that will allow some broken portions of land to simply slip beneath the water line, or maybe I was just hung over in that geology/techtonics class, circa 1993.
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California has the faults that are moving North/South, the Oregon/Washington coast has subsidence faults. While CA's faults move more often, the movements are comparably minor when compared to what happens when a subsidence fault lets go. The predictions are a 50' tsunami, coupled with a 3'-4' drop by the ground itself.
 
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“a wall of water […] up to a hundred feet high and up to seven-hundred feet across."
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Up to seven hundred feet across!! Muhaha!

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It's funny how these scientists are credible but climatologists aren't.

Seems like just an agenda to me.
 
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sookster said:
It's funny how these scientists are credible but climatologists aren't.

Seems like just an agenda to me.
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Then show me the hundreds of billions of dollars being made off industry and manufacturing from these geologists / tectonic scientists.
 
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I'm pretty upset about the dump trucks washing away.
 
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ocean515 said:
If I lived up there, I'd set my Tesla Model S P85D to Ludicrous speed, and I bet I could be 800 feet to one side in like an instant.
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Without a car though, it might take an entire minute to run out of the path of that monster!
 
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That Pacific Northwest is beautiful country, for sure.

I would rather take my chances with hurricanes and such than earthquakes and such. And I wonder about long term implications of the nuclear plant 7 miles from my house?

Nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain. :)
 
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Top Cat said:



Wow, I live a 1000 feet from The Puget Sound. I guess I'm screwed.
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My sister lives in Santa Cruz, so she is not as screwed but still screwed non the less.
 
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Many, many years ago one of the 'jokes' about the sure to come California quake was that there would have to change the line in the song that goes.

This land is your land, This land is my land, / From California to the New York island; To: This land is your land, This land is my land, / From Colorado to the New York island.

The point is this talk about a massive west coast quake has been going on for decades.
 
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