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Scientists have identified Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver as the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake, also called a mega-quake, in the continental United States. A quake will happen — in fact it's actually overdue. The Cascadia subduction zone is 750 miles long, running along the Pacific coast from Northern California up to southern British Columbia. In this fascinating book, The Seattle Times science reporter Sandi Doughton introduces readers to the scientists who are dedicated to understanding the way the earth moves and describes what patterns can be identified and how prepared (or not) people are. With a 100% chance of a mega-quake hitting the Pacific Northwest, this fascinating book reports on the scientists who are trying to understand when, where, and just how big THE BIG ONE will be.
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Sandi Doughton received her undergraduate degree — majors in biology and journalism, minor in chemistry — from the University of New Mexico and did graduate studies in biology and chemistry at Texas A&M University. Her first science writing job was for the Los Alamos Monitor, a small daily where she covered Los Alamos National Laboratory and its programs in nuclear weapons, Star Wars anti-ballistic missile systems, laser fusion, and basic physics. Doughton has also worked at newspapers in Santa Fe, NM, and Tacoma, WA, where she covered the environment, health, and medicine. Doughton currently writes about science for The Seattle Times.
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traflet, June 17, 2013 (view all comments by traflet)
I definitely will be at Powell's next week to meet the author and get the scoop on the subject of The Big One. I believe all of us in the PNW should understand earthquakes, but also wonder whether the way in which the data is presented might cause mass hysteria. What will we do with the information? The fact that we're overdue for a 100% certain catastrophe is a little hard to process.

After witnessing TV reports of past disasters that had an element of forewarning, we might have muttered, "Why the heck didn't those people just move away? They knew it was coming!" But of course, we are here in the path of this sure-thing monster and we're not reacting ... or, more accurately, "preacting."

Hopefully this book will be available for Kindle format, since that's what I'll be grabbing when I try to outrun the 'quake.
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ISBN:
9781570617898
Subtitle:
The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
Author:
Doughton, Sandi
Publisher:
Sasquatch Books
Subject:
Geology-Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Subject:
Earthquakes
Copyright:
2013
Publication Date:
20130631
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Language:
English
Pages:
288
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