Matilda
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Post by Matilda on Aug 17, 2015 13:41:18 GMT 10
This is about 2 weeks old.
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Post by graynomad on Aug 18, 2015 9:27:17 GMT 10
Glad I don't live there, for many reasons apart from this.
I don't see how they get a figure of 13,000, more like 100s of 1000s or even millions I would think.
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Post by Peter on Aug 18, 2015 9:44:02 GMT 10
Admittedly I've only seen the title of the video, not the video itself... BUT...
are these the same scientists who predicted catastrophic global cooling then warming then change now cooling again? Just asking...
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Post by Matilda on Aug 18, 2015 12:57:33 GMT 10
Your right Gray - the population is huge and although the major cities, ie Vancouver, Seattle, Portland are inland - a bit like Parramatta on a river, you only have to see videos of Japan and the tsunami to see that it was mainly fishing villages that were wiped out and it happened so quickly. There were high buildings but nothing like there is in Vancouver, Seatte etc. We've been to Vancouver and a lot of their shopping malls are UNDER the street level. You wouldn't stand a chance getting out. No idea Mr Pete  . It was presented by Fox but its not the only article on it. The local "council"?? In the area and the military have been doing exercises for rescuing people because the only way to reach people will be by air. I also watched another video which was very interesting on it as well. A Geologist went to the area where the local Inuits had in their folklore of a large earthquake followed by a tsunami. The white man had no records going back to 1700 because they had not arrived in America. Their stories told of a great shaking then a huge wave of water. This Geologist found sediment laid down which went - clay, clay, clay, sand (thin line) then clay again. When the tsunami hit, the sea floor was washed over the clay of the land, thus the sand. If a tsanami had occurred as well, there should be signs of a big one not in this area, but in Japan. The Japanese culture recorded everything and even the year 1700 recorded a wave ( without an earthquake) travelled inland and caused damage. It even recorded the date in January, 1700 at about 1am. Amazing! But it didn't stop there. The same Tsunami travelled inland in America and there is a forest of cedars that is called the 'dead forest'. Huge stumps of trees that are twisted and in some cases snapped off 50' in the air. This same Geologist cut several of the trees and measured their rings. They had been growing healthy, it showed when the weather was cold by the rings and when they had a good season. The WINTER before the Tsanami the trees were healthy and the next year they were dead. |
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Post by tyburn on Aug 18, 2015 15:28:09 GMT 10
I didn't watch the video (can't open Youtube in China without a VPN...which I can't use in the office), however the story behind it is in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one From the article: "FEMA projects that nearly thirteen thousand people will die in the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. Another twenty-seven thousand will be injured, and the agency expects that it will need to provide shelter for a million displaced people, and food and water for another two and a half million." "(Casualty figures) are based on the agency’s official planning scenario, which has the earthquake striking at 9:41 A.M. on February 6th. If, instead, it strikes in the summer, when the beaches are full, those numbers could be off by a horrifying margin." So, 13k dead at the very very least, but potentially multiple times that amount. |
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Post by Matilda on Aug 18, 2015 20:19:02 GMT 10
You're right tyburn - the start of the video mentions the newyorker.
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Post by SA Hunter on Aug 18, 2015 22:17:43 GMT 10
So, millions will be affected or "toast" as they predicted, but casualties only 13,000.
Sounds like a smoke screen to me.
If nothing else, at least they have identified a real potential disaster, and are preparing for it, though i think they are grossly underpreparing for what will happen!!
Glad I live in SA!
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Post by SA Hunter on Aug 18, 2015 22:21:37 GMT 10
With an estimated 668,342 residents as of 2014, Seattle is the largest city in both the State of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America and, as of July 2013, is the fastest-growing major city in the United States.[5] The Seattle metropolitan area of around 3.6 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeattleThis is just one city on the ocean in the affected areas. 13,000 dead? try 1,300,000.
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