A conversation with Seattle
Doughton’s story focuses on the geological record and its implications for the Northwest. Does the region face an offshore mega-quake and tsunami on the scale of Japan’s 3/11/11 event that will kill thousands and devastate the economy, or a series of magnitude 8 offshore quake and tsunami events that will cumulatively be nearly as devastating? Continue reading “Full Rip 9.0” Uncovers the Northwest’s Earthquake Dangers
This week has been especially active in Western Washington, with six quakes Tuesday, fourteen Wednesday, and eleven on Thursday. To date, our portion of the Pacific Rim’s Ring of Fire is merely feeling peptic: Some of these quakes are truly tiny, 0.2 and 0.4 magnitude on the Richter scale. But a 2.4 hit near Woodburn, Oregon, a little after 5 a.m. this morning. Continue reading The Pacific Northwest Has Got the “Tiny Quake” Shakes
But what were those little stars up near the Washington-British Columbia border? I checked the map’s key. “Explosions”?
Curious, I started clicking around to see if we were under unannounced invasion, and discovered PNSN was already on it. Continue reading British Columbia Coal is Blowin’ Up!