The Really Big One
Kathryn Schulz writes about the Pacific Northwest’s Cascadia fault line, and the region’s inadequate disaster-preparedness plans.
A thirty-second earthquake is magnitude mid-sevens. A minute-long quake reaches the high sevens. By four minutes, you've hit magnitude 9.0. Goldfinger watched his watch as the Tohoku quake kept going. The ground "snapped and popped and rippled." He thought about sushi.