Earthquakes and Tsunami --Not Tohoku, but the Pacific Northwest
Many think of California when you hear the word "earthquakes" or "tsunami". But this is a very sober look at the Pacific Northwest, up into British Columbia. I endorse it to your reading list, very seriously. This is not film drama, but a look based on contemporary science.
The Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011 appears to also be a fair comparison. In the article's description of a tsunami, I think of what my cousin experienced in Thailand when the Indian Ocean was struck by a massive tsunami.
I recently watched the film _San Andreas_--watch it sometime, but _not_ for a sense of the San Andreas fault's damage, but rather for a sense of what Seattle, Portland and most everything 'west of Interstate 5" might experience.
And the massive wave in _San Andreas_ is NOT what is likely--rather, it will be like Tohoku in 2011. I'm reminded of the images from NHK helicopters above the coast at Sendai--the water simply came ashore, and kept coming, and proceeded far inland, pushing EVERYTHING inland, _far_ inland.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
The Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011 appears to also be a fair comparison. In the article's description of a tsunami, I think of what my cousin experienced in Thailand when the Indian Ocean was struck by a massive tsunami.
I recently watched the film _San Andreas_--watch it sometime, but _not_ for a sense of the San Andreas fault's damage, but rather for a sense of what Seattle, Portland and most everything 'west of Interstate 5" might experience.
And the massive wave in _San Andreas_ is NOT what is likely--rather, it will be like Tohoku in 2011. I'm reminded of the images from NHK helicopters above the coast at Sendai--the water simply came ashore, and kept coming, and proceeded far inland, pushing EVERYTHING inland, _far_ inland.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one