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Originally Posted by bausch
California is due to the big one soon any time now. Do you think in general we are more prepared than the Japanese are or not as much?
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The next "Big One" of the strength of what occurred in Japan is far more likely in the Upper Northwest, such as Seattle, Washington State and Victoria, British Columbia.
Read up on the Cascadia Subduction Zone - a big earthquake from that will likely be around a 9.0 with a large Tsunami.
Fortunately, many coastal cities in the Northwest are sheltered from a direct hit by high water, and there's only one commercial nuclear reactor in the entire U.S. Northwest (Columbia Generating Station - Richland, WA), which is located hundreds of miles inland; none at all in BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone
Ron