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first warning of a monster earthquake off America's Coast the worst natural disaster in the history of the nation is coming say the scientists and they are all in agreement it is absolutely coming thousands of dogs will bark at alert before the ground liquefies in one area and a wall of water will slam into the Pacific Northwest up to a hundred feet high and up to 700 feet across more than 10,000 will die it is coming it is a certainty the question is when the warning is from The New Yorker magazine will give you all the details from the scientists and find out why it's already all over do the big big one in the Pacific Northwest an area I'd never even heard of as far as seismic activity goes hang on this this is interesting read a stunning article by Catherine Scholes in The New Yorker this week and frankly if I lived right now in the pacific northwest i'd be considering moving seriously the gist of it is this the federal government estimates 13,000 Americans will die in a major earthquake and tsunami in the Pacific Northwest it's not a question of whether but when this earthquake is coming and it's overdue consider that the magnitude 9.0 earthquake in japan just a few years ago remember that killed more than 15,000 people in the north of japan and injured thousands of others seismologists say that the quake that will strike on our Pacific Northwest coastline should be even stronger at up to a 9.2 they call such a quake a margin rupture quake and it's every bit as bad as it sounds here's the reason for it our entire continent since on the North American tectonic shelf right plate I should say off the coast of the Civic Northwest from the top of Washington State all the way down to Northern California this is it and another plate called the Juan de Fuca is trying to slide up under North America but its it's stuck we have an illustration over here in the big wall let me show you what this is this is our continent here these this is a cascade of mountains this is the Cascadia what do they call it the Cascadia what the Cascadia bridge I was actually asking him but thank you the North American plate here and the Juan de Fuca plate here this one's sliding up under and eventually this is going to go down send a huge wall of water up that wall will go all the way over to Japan and the other will come on to our our Shore within 15 minutes and when it slips it will unleash not only a colossal earthquake but also that tsunami 700 miles long and in some places up to a 100 foot high wall of water and whatever it's pushing like houses and dump trucks and in schools thousands and thousands will not escape the New Yorker quotes a FEMA official who says and I quote our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast everything west of Interstate 5 is gone that's seattle-tacoma Portland in Olympia Salem and Eugene wiped out altogether about 7 million people that's not including tourists so think of summertime The New Yorker reports that FEMA calculations indicate the disaster will damage or destroy about a million buildings including three thousand schools and one-third of all fire stations and perhaps the worst part of all of this these sorts of earthquakes happen at regular intervals in exactly this part of the world have forever on average according to seismologist about every two hundred forty years so when was the last one of these these massive 9.2 or so earthquakes well the last one was more than 300 years ago the year 1700 it struck in the Pacific Northwest and sent a 600-foot wave of water all the way to Japan so right now on average the Pacific Northwest is decades overdue for the really really big one Michio Kaku is a physicist and professor at City College of New York this article is stunning is it over if it's overstated in any way no the Cascadia fault is an earthquake waiting to happen we know it's going to happen with an energy 30 x 30 times the maximum energy of the San Andreas Fault so Hollywood has its brainwashed into thinking the big one is going to be in California know the Cascadia fall would pack energy 30 times the energy that the San Andreas Fault can muster the article speaks of a liquification of the earth that part of the earth will turn to liquid that's right we're talking about major energy surges inside the ground that will cause it to liquefy we've seen that in Japan we've saw that at Fukushima and it's almost like quicksand one day you're walking on solid ground the next you're falling right into a quicksand this earthquake would last for minutes or more the rattling and the shaking and then within 15 minutes they estimate this wall of water in the entire inundation zone you could have water up to 100 feet high that's right and in the inundation zone we have 70,000 people that have almost no clue as to what could happen you know in Japan you have to live with earthquakes every day children go through stud two tests and drills people are conscious of this but in the Pacific Northwest it's barely on a barely race on the radar screen there's something that happens before the shaking that we can sense that we can sensors can pick up that's an early warning system that they have all over Japan especially in the north and in Tokyo area they've been trying to get it pushed through looking for money for it the seattle-tacoma area nothing that's right before the earthquake actually hits there's a compression way that is detected by animals for example animals start to act very strange and we've seen that happen before earthquakes and then a minute two minutes later boom you head for the hills because there's nothing left to do except to go to high ground you mentioned what this sort of event has caused in in history that's right in the year 1700 there was a massive earthquake and tsunami which surged over Japan and then running the videotape backwards you can actually see that in 1700 it originated with a Cascadia fault and then we physicists can calculate the energy the magnitude the dynamics once we got these two events linked together and that was only done in the last decade or so and you mentioned not Everest that's right mine Everest is also created by the collision of two false just like what we have here the one fall going under the other fall going over and that created the Himalayan mountains that created Mount Everest that's the power the power pack by the subduction zone earthquake okay averages of when things are going to happen are really not very reliable I think they use the by example the difference between four and six is two I forget exactly how they did we can't be sure exactly when this is going to happen but we're positive it's going to happen if you live in the Pacific Northwest you had little kids would you live there I'd think twice I would have to like drill them just like what they do in Japan be part of their life in terms of hang an emergency kit where to go in case of an emergency what to do what frequencies to go to and so and so forth and by the way we know that this is going to happen because by simply drilling into the sea floor we can see evidence of ancient ancient tsunamis going back ten thousand years and we know how many over that period 41 which means that the the time between the cycles is about 240 years and it's been three hundred fifteen years since the last big one now of course this is not rigorous is not absolute but according to this figure we could be overdue for another big one yeah bye Billy decades it's nice to talk to you thank you mm-hmm really weird and scary that's right and you know within the lifetime of some of our viewers they may see Seattle and Portland destroyed it's a great article at The New Yorker it's in this month's edition and an offence spectacularly well written and the facts that go along with it they're really sort of mind-numbing see you soon thank you