@medinadg
My favorite Olympic Peninsula bumper sticker: “Honk if you Juan de Fuca.”
@patrickomeagher9868
I lived in Japan when the Great Tohoku Earthquake hit off Sendai in 2011. It was a factor 9 and the tsunami literally wiped towns and cities right off the map and put a major nuclear power plant into full meltdown. I lived about 500 miles away in Nara, but I still felt it. It didn't shake or rumble, but suddenly felt like being on a ship on rough seas on dry land, enough to make me dizzy. I moved back to the US in 2018 and now I live in... southern Washington State. Besides the Cascadia Subduction Zone, we've got Mt. Reinier overdue for a major eruption. I can clearly see both Mt Reinier and Mt St Helens from the end of my road. I need to find myself a nice, comfortable, geologically benign place outside of the Ring of Fire some day.
@jerrik-415
I insisted my home be bolted to the granite. When the big one comes, I'm riding this mountain to wherever it's going, be that Astoria, Idaho, or hell.
@althearizzosfireside
My entire job is getting people and infrastructure ready for Cascadia. We have a long way to go but we have only known about the hazard since the mid 1980s. The tsunami will not be “skyscraper” high. Watch videos of 2011 Japan for a better understanding. So much is being done to harden infrastructure and put processes into place. If you want to help, join your local CERT team.
@dw3403
Yes, it's raining and dangerous in the Pacific NW. Stay away.
@mitchellseibel2859
As someone who lives smack dab in the middle of this region, I can tell you it has become startlingly apparent to me that we are not ready for the next Cascadia earthquake and hundreds of thousands of people are going to die
@bollio
0:49 EASTERN coast of North America?!
@NWEDC
looks out back window at Mt. Rainier “Still okay! See you tomorrow. Hopefully.”
@JanieHacker
Geologist here. When I was in college in Washington, we talked about this only occasionally. Aside from the destruction of a lot of property and civil works, a key point is that most of the Pacific Northwest is connected by only one direct highway (I-5) and if bridges and roads were destroyed, then resources would not be able to be efficiently distributed, and priority would be given to larger cities like Seattle etc. I went to college in Bellingham and they told us we should essentially have an emergency stash of food and water. Water pipelines in cities would be destroyed, so keep a good water filter around.
@BoyNamedSue4
As someone who grew up in the area. You just kinda get use to it and be thankful we don’t get hurricanes.
@jacara1981
For my Geology degree I did my thesis on the Cascadia Subduction Zone. It was even more of a monster disaster than stated in this video. I've been to the forests that were destroyed all the way up to the Mountains. The entire Olympic peninsula dropped 25 to 50 ft after the earthquake. Can you just imagine that happening today...
@miles8385
One of the unmentioned concerns here is that the region also hosts 6 active volcanoes, and due to the population distribution in its lahar paths, Mt. Rainier's next eruption is predicted to be potentially one of the deadliest in history.
@cs-lc7wv
I'm in the greater Seattle area and love my Cascadian flag! It's not a movement people really take that seriously, it's more a thought experiment. We do take The Big One seriously though. When it hits, it's estimated pretty much everything west of i-5 is a goner. It's also not really known how it will affect our 6 active volcanoes....
@SatanSoldier
I got up, pulled on on my Cascadia hoodie, made a cup of coffee, sat down at my computer, and found this video at the top of my youtube homepage. Excellent. I dream of an alternate timeline where America and Britain settled the Oregon/Columbia territory dispute by establishing it as an independent nation with ties to both.
@freeheeler00
Everyone forgets about Mt St Elias, which helps make the northern border of the Cascadia bio-region. It is the second tallest Mountain in North America and basically rises up near the coast to create one of the most extreme vertical reliefs in the world - going from sea level to over 18,000 ft in less than 10 miles.
@mikeharvey9184
Everyone talks about the "Big One", and forgets that Mt Rainier (fueled by the same subduction zone) is about due for an eruption. And all the rivers running off of Rainier largely run into South Seattle, Tacoma, and all the suburbs in between. The lahar caused by the flash melting of the glaciers could easily kill half a million people and cut the region off from the outside world by knocking out many of the freeways and damaging the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma.
@BallisticDamages
After living in Vancouver and on the island, it honestly scared me how little people concerned themselves with the possibility of an earthquake. It was never brought up in safety meetings, chats, or government functions. I hate to say it because I have family there, but I think the Vancouver area is going to see a horrible loss of life in the event of a large earthquake
@sassapire
Also, fun fact; there isn't really a plan for what happens with The Big One hits. Like, yeah, there are roads with signs designating them for evacuation/emergency services, but there isn't a body responsible for them, or for enforcing it. Learned that when doing my urban search and rescue training on the island.
@_PITBOY
For someone who in my lifetime, moved from Vancouver ... to the interior of BC (Kamloops) ... for normal family and lifestyle reasons ... I'd be lying if it didnt cross my mind that I was moving away from a disaster waiting to happen, and potentially moving towards future seaside property. Kidding ... but not entirely. We have grown up with this knowledge deeply ingrained into our psyche ... the big one is coming.
@vikingspud