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The point was that you said "There are no active earthquake faults with in hundreds of miles of the Oregon coast." which is completely untrue, as that map shows.
You also said "There is no recorded record of any significant earthquakes on the Oregon Coast." Which is also untrue.
"Three earthquakes have affected southern Oregon since 1870. The first earthquake of note is the largest recorded earthquake in Oregon history. It occurred on November 23, 1873 at the California border on the coast and had a magnitude of 6.75. Damage was reported along the coast and in Josephine and Jackson Counties."
"1700 Cascadia earthquake. The 1700 Cascadia earthquake occurred along the Cascadia subduction zone on January 26 with an estimated moment magnitude of 8.7–9.2. The megathrust earthquake involved the Juan de Fuca Plate from mid-Vancouver Island, south along the Pacific Northwest coast as far as northern California."
Just because a fault is inactive now doesn't mean that it won't reactivate. But you just keep believing what you want even if untrue. The time since the last Cascadia megaquake in 1700 is but a blink of the eyes in earth time. No amount of time at all. Just stay right where you are. Don't prepare for any disasters if you can help it. That's all on you. You live in earthquake country just like California, and Washington like it, or not. I honestly believe that even if you were in the midst of a big quake, you would deny it.
Again those are not ACTIVE faults. They may not have been active for a million years. As for a 1700 Cascadia earthquake, there is zero evidence that occurred. It's 100% fake news. There is a record of a tsunami in Japan that year, but no evidence of where that tsunami came from. It could have been anywhere in the Pacific Ocean. The only record of it is in Japan, which would seem logical to believe that it was probably local to that area, probably off the Japanese coastline.
But lets pretend there was a catastrophic earthquake in 1700 in the Pacific Northwest. That was over 300 years ago. When you go 300 years without a major earthquake, I think you can safely say you are not in an earthquake zone. Almost every place in the world has more earthquakes then that. That's about as safe as you can get.
Again those are not ACTIVE faults. They may not have been active for a million years. As for a 1700 Cascadia earthquake, there is zero evidence that occurred. It's 100% fake news. There is a record of a tsunami in Japan that year, but no evidence of where that tsunami came from. It could have been anywhere in the Pacific Ocean. The only record of it is in Japan, which would seem logical to believe that it was probably local to that area, probably off the Japanese coastline.
But lets pretend there was a catastrophic earthquake in 1700 in the Pacific Northwest. That was over 300 years ago. When you go 300 years without a major earthquake, I think you can safely say you are not in an earthquake zone. Almost every place in the world has more earthquakes then that. That's about as safe as you can get.
Trees tell us when the quake happened, correlating with the tsunami in Japan.
"Tree-Ring Dated Evidence Of Disturbance Extends Along About 100 Km Of Coastal Washington And Northern Oregon, These Results Support The Inference That A Great (M-W Similar To 8) Earthquake Or Larger At The Cascadia Subduction Zone Generated The Historical Tsunami That Struck Japan In January 1700."
Again those are not ACTIVE faults. They may not have been active for a million years. As for a 1700 Cascadia earthquake, there is zero evidence that occurred. It's 100% fake news. There is a record of a tsunami in Japan that year, but no evidence of where that tsunami came from. It could have been anywhere in the Pacific Ocean. The only record of it is in Japan, which would seem logical to believe that it was probably local to that area, probably off the Japanese coastline.
But lets pretend there was a catastrophic earthquake in 1700 in the Pacific Northwest. That was over 300 years ago. When you go 300 years without a major earthquake, I think you can safely say you are not in an earthquake zone. Almost every place in the world has more earthquakes then that. That's about as safe as you can get.
You already said that once. Nowhere does it say on that map that those faults are inactive. It just calls them faults. Who are you to say they are inactive? That bit came from your imagination, not fact because you don't want to admit your error. Scientists can tell by the Ghost Forests in the subsided parts, tree rings, deposits of sand inland from the tsunami. But according to you, they don't count.
Whatever! I'm so glad people have progressed scientifically in this day, and age (for the most part). Otherwise they would still think the world is flat. Must be a real estate agent, or a COC "leader".
When you go 300 years without a major earthquake, I think you can safely say you are not in an earthquake zone. Almost every place in the world has more earthquakes then that. That's about as safe as you can get.
Lol wow. The level of naivety in these statements is actually comical. You're only fooling yourself, sir.
This under 3 min video speaks on the "Slow Quakes". This is a more recent discovery, and super interesting. I lived in Sequim on the Olympic Peninsula, and these quakes moved south from British Columbia right under where I lived, and continued south into Oregon. So small that you couldn't feel them, but there were swarms of them, thousands over a two week time period as they slowly moved south.
Pretty freaky to learn this was going on right underneath you, and you didn't know it. There is another picture of the slow quakes where each dot represents a little quake, and were in different colors. That shows it moving right under Sequim, Port Angeles, etc from Canada south.
I don't consider the Oregon Coast to be an earthquake zone. I was talking about places where people actually experience earthquakes. Places where people experience minor earthquakes regularly, and might possibly experience a major earthquake once in their lifetime. California, Western Washington, Southern Alaska, and Hawaii, and a few small isolated areas of other parts of the country. No one alive has ever experienced an earthquake on the Oregon Coast, nore are they likely to. So that is a non-issue.
Um, it's a fact. Please do your research, before you post nonsense. There are no active earthquake faults with in hundreds of miles of the Oregon coast. There is no recorded record of any significant earthquakes on the Oregon Coast. The only way anybody could possibly have felt an earthquake near the Oregon Coast would be from a distant earthquake, and those would be so far away, the chances of anyone feeling it would be virtually zero.
Please, at this point you're just embarrassing yourself.
Everyone's an expert when it comes to earthquakes.
I have seen people blindly believing what they were told by the news outlets. People who quit their jobs, sold their homes (and thus missed out on millions of dollars in price appreciation) and moved East right after the Loma Prieta quake (1989). They were convinced if they stayed, they would be killed by a freeway section crushing their car.
It did not help that in our company auditorium the earthquake coverage was non-stop and the most horrifying video shown repeatedly.
Don't get freaked out by this stuff. I'm convinced after 45 years of living in CA that 99.9% of earthquakes cause no damage and no one dies. Quakes happen all the time. You rarely hear about them. Nothing to get excited about.
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