While we have known for sometime that we live on a dangerous fault zone, given the history of huge earthquakes in the recent past, this scientific study seems to show a much greater threat than we imagine. It’s a good reminder to have stockpiled the kind of supplies, water, food, and batteries, that would help you survive a few weeks if we experienced the kind of earthquake that has happened in Japan. The study below is a scientific one, and is not free to the public.
VANCOUVER, B.C. — A new study says the next major earthquake to hit the Pacific Northwest could strike below Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula.
Professor Andy Calvert of Simon Fraser University,is the lead author of the study.
The findings were published recently in the journal Nature Geoscience….
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1195.html
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