| The other video I showed was somebody who worked for the Red Cross in Oregon. He talked about the Pacific Northwest being overdue for another 9-point earthquake. They happen historically, every couple of hundred years, and there's been a record of it. Now there are a lot of people that live on or near the shore. There's one town we talked about that actually, once a year, they set the fire and fire alarms go off, using a certain pattern, and then everybody runs up the mountain. And there's a picnic area, where they throw a party. But it's become part of their local folklore, that when the alarm sounds, you run to this higher ground.[1] But I would imagine that the fact that this hasn't happened, I think, for two centuries in the Pacific Northwest, is that you have this complacency set in. This just doesn't happen. But yet the area is incredibly vulnerable, what with the fault line running right down the Puget Sound. |