Unlike the San Andreas, which is a slip-strike, I believe is the term. As in, the two plates are moving against each other in opp. directions, as opposed to one sliding under the other.

Short answer is, yes, the Pacific NW is vulnerable to extremely strong quakes.

I just had the bottom of my pool tiled and would hate for it to get cracked.

But hey ... your pool will be fine.

"Do you have any idea what an event like this would do to regional economic stability?"

Well, it's sure to make work for pool tile people.

Sorry. Had to.

Does everything have to be serious?

Lock-step is not my idea of a good time.

And fracking issues. Oregon is ready to blow. Lol. Decades I haven't heard anything. Now this

If you're not on a floodplain or beside running water, chances are you'll be fine. If you're a few miles from a faultline, you'll probably feel an earthquake, but that's enough to make damage unlikely. There's a faultline about 2 miles from my house (brick, built in the 20's), but a decent sized earthquake a few years ago didn't do any harm to the neighborhood.

to a place or the day before i moved away from a place. bishop, castroville/watsonville, san diego. i felt like i was a damn magnet for earthquakes.

thinking of oregon the other day i was saying. well, at least i never hear of major earthquakes there. then i started thinking firther. why not? they are coastal. same range. they should have them like calif. but they dont. meh.... sounds good

then here this article is.

was a funny to me.

It's kind of fascinating, when you step back from the freaky aspect. California has the San Andreas and affiliated smaller faults, which are basically the pacific and the n american plates sliding past each other... I think north america is going north, pacific south (but it may be the other way around) ... Then you have this smaller plate up here. The juan de fuca, which is sliding under the n american plate. So okay, the rock from one plate goes under the other, gets hot, and rises to the surface, which forms...



Volcanoes.

Its kind of neat to think about. But these subduction faults lead to larger earthquakes that are less frequent. So you might be talking about a VERY large quake (think Japan, 2011) although it would probably have an epicenter somewhere out off the coast, not on land per se.

thanks for the info. makes sense.

Earth quakes, the Yellowstone caldera, volcanoes, tsunamis, gigantic tidal waves, Japanese radiation, mutant zombie bears, or just masses of weird naked people on a rampage, Portland is doomed!

I was just trying to have a nice quiet dinner out with my wife and YIKES




or should I say bikes.

EVERYWHERE!

beautiful state (well, if you can ignore the reichwingnutjobs) but, there are a lot of good progressives here who would welcome you with open arms.

wtf??? lol

i will take an earthquake and blizzard over a tornado. i can so do without an avalanche. something i do not want to experience.

co spr is still top on the list for different reasons.

right down manitou avenue a few years ago--have had them here and out to the eastern plains. but definitely not tornado alley!

a number of DU'ers are here in the springs, would love to have more.

My husband retires in April & we are outtahere..

We have it narrowed down to :

Coos Bay
Bend
Cottage Grove
Albany

and about a zillion other places

Nothing north of Salem

i will sometime. if not this year, then i am clear in three. i am looking at eugene and salem. i spent some days in eugene this summer and really like the feel. but salem, i get much more in my house for the money than eugene.

i am going to have to check out cottage grove and albany. i hear good things about coos bay.

i am open and flexible.

thrilled for you.

The Big One due in LA has been due for like 50 years.

If memory serves correctly there were some people or a person on either China or Japan who found themselves in deep doo-doo for their failure to make a public warning when the signs of an impending quake were at hand. Sorry to be so vague about it but its just form memory.

I predict Southern California will have a huge earthquake, with many large and unnerving aftershocks. I'm positive I'll be proven 100% correct.

See how easy that is?

I'll get back to ya on that one.

Short-term prediction: Not tomorrow.

Mid-term prediction: Not next month.

Long-term prediction: Yes.

It's a worry, but you just stay aware and stay prepared. That's the key.

I've got water, some canned stuff, flashlights, candles, etc., but, man, if the subduction zone goes all bets are off.

Actually, I now live on the east side of the Cascades, and our town has an emergency plan in place to deal with all those refugees who flee over the mountains when the Big One hits. Gonna be mighty interesting! It has to do with the subduction zone a few miles off the Pacific Coast, and while I'm willing to deal with the aftermath of all that shakin' going on, so far I'm not too worried. Survived a few quakes when I lived west of the Cascades, in a town not too far from Mt. St. Helens, where the ash fell hot and heavy after she blew her top a few times. Had some involvement with Office of Emergency Management when they used to do "Trojan Drills" in preparation for a meltdown at the Trojan Nuclear Plant. That's shut down now, so I guess OEM needs something to do with their time. Why not dire warnings about Killer Earthquakes?

For all my fellow Oregonians in Coos, Curry, Douglas, Lane, Lincoln, Tillamook and Clatsop Counties over there on the coast, stay safe! And remember our state's motto--She Flies With Her Own Wings. Keep your parachutes handy!

Meanwhile, peace, blessings and congrats for living in the most beautiful and amazing state in the nation!

The last time the subduction zone slipped was in the late 1700s.

Massive quake in the NW.

And a humongous tsunami that hit Japan (and other nearby areas) a few hours later.

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300-600 years, for the most part over the last couple thousand years.

It's been a bit over 300, so Oregon's up to bat. Perhaps this year. Perhaps in 200 years. Shorter's a bit more likely than longer.

according to experts.

http://www.dvidshub.net/news/105283/earthquake-specialist-shares-insight-about-californias-next-big-one#.Uj-nOz8QNG0


I was in college at UCLA when the 1971 quake hit. Scared the bejesus out of my roomie and me. That was only 6.6 magnitude.
I cannot imagine the damage a 7+ will do.

Earthquakes are not like library books. They happen exactly when they happen and not one second sooner. To say that a region is due (or even more ignorantly, overdue) for an earthquake shows utter ignorance and naïveté. And it's utterly stupid to claim that an area is overdue for...

Dun! Dun! Dunnnnn!
THE BIG ONE
Dun! Dun! Dunnnnn!
(Gotta have dramatic chords for that one.)

Only people ignorant of math and statistics say things like that. (And copy editors who want to make a splash with a provocative article title.)

Stoooopid!

there are some faults that let go with fairly consistent intervals. If a fault slips every 100 years or so with a 7.0 average strength, for several thousand years then after 150 years of nothing, a geologist may say that particular fault is overdue.

Some say the Cascadia subduction zone is overdue because on average the interval is 300-500 years. Well, it's been 300 years so it's not OVER due, but it could possibly be due. It's not stupid to say so. They had been talking about Japan overdue for a large tsunami for at least 10 years before the 2011 earthquake - they were right.

Given it is not very accessible via transportation other than car, and even then given the prediction of the transportation system collapsing it would be nearly impossible to get there from overseas. I'm crossing my fingers it doesn't happen for another 20 years.

it happens......at least on the same side of the river.....