Absolutely. Speaking of movements, I know we're all looking for farm-to-table 2.0-- like, the new name. into the Cascadian Farms line or whatever, if that is of General Mills, and then also a $500,000 grant to the University of Minnesota
So. Megathrust faults. They also crop up in subduction zones— where one tectonic plate dives beneath another. That’s what’s happening at the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 1,300-kilometer-long tectonic plate boundary that runs along the United States’ Northwest Pacific Coast. Here, the Juan de Fuca and Gorda oceanic plates are subducting beneath the North American continental plate, creating a megathrust fault in between.
There’s even evidence that the tsunami it generated destroyed houses in Japan— on the other side of the ocean. It’s not a question of if there’ll be another Cascadia earthquake but when. The most recent, roughly a magnitude 9, happened in 1700 C.E., which was… how many years ago?
And many of those buildings— whether businesses, residences, or schools— hadn’t been stabilized for earthquake resilience. If an earthquake of high magnitude hit the Cascadia region in 2015, things would have been dire. But there’s some more good news: In the decade since Schulz published her investigation, the Pacific Northwest’s early warning system, ShakeAlert, went live.
place that seems really troublesome in terms of tsunami right now is the Pacific Northwest there's a fault called the Cascadia fault that is an almost a mirror image of the Sumatra fault of course the whole Pacific Rim is kind of a patchwork quilt of faults
Here, the Juan de Fuca and Gorda oceanic plates are subducting beneath the North American continental plate, creating a megathrust fault in between. In the last 3,500 years, the Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated at least seven major earthquakes, occurring 246 years apart on average. The oral histories of the Huu-ay-aht and Cowichan First Nations describe an earthquake triggering landslides and fifty-foot waves, wiping out whole villages, and leaving ghost forests in its wake.
So you could be creative and not suck. Some folks up there have called the black IPA style the the black Cascadian ale.
And sometimes, institutions that have the resources for earthquake preparedness simply don’t take advantage of them. In 2015, journalist Kathryn Schulz investigated the risks of a massive earthquake in the Cascadia subduction zone. Her report was staggering: For one thing, the region didn’t have an early warning system at the time.
So you could be creative and not suck. And Jamie Floyd from Ninkasi up in Eugene, Oregon which is up in the People's Republic of Cascadia .