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[dolari]

Dreamed that we had an earthquake here in Seattle and everyone passed out during it. When we woke up, the mountains were visibly much closer, save surrounding the building....

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[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. How's your track record regarding premonitions.. ? The Cascadia fault is approaching its time.

If, on that occasion, only the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone gives way—your first two fingers, say—the magnitude of the resulting quake will be somewhere between 8.0 and 8.6. That’s the big one. If the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2. That’s the very big one.

Thanks to that work, we now know that the Pacific Northwest has experienced forty-one subduction-zone earthquakes in the past ten thousand years. If you divide ten thousand by forty-one, you get two hundred and forty-three, which is Cascadia’s recurrence interval: the average amount of time that elapses between earthquakes. That timespan is dangerous both because it is too long—long enough for us to unwittingly build an entire civilization on top of our continent’s worst fault line—and because it is not long enough. Counting from the earthquake of 1700, we are now three hundred and fifteen years into a two-hundred-and-forty-three-year cycle.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm. How's your track record regarding premonitions.. ?"

http://jddreamjournal.livejournal.com/2001/09/08/