[cronix]

Nick Zentner of Central Washington University did a really good talk about this article and some of it seems overblown, specifically the "west of I5 will be toast."

They've placed GPS sensors throuout the PNW and one of the more interesting things is that Oregon and Washingtons land is working in a spiral, and the land is moving in a circular pattern. Also that the hot spot that creates Yellowstone used to be off the Oregon coast and traveled through Oregon, and Idaho before it reached where it currently is. It's left a trail of calderas that they're only now discovering. The hotspot stays in the same spot, but the earths crust moves over it changing it's position over time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW4D6OE7Qkc

[blueprint]

I have seen many of his talks. that statement about west of i95 being toast is not incorrect. He made a very obvious point of the fact the energy released by this quake will be nearly 3 orders of magnitude greater than a 7. Coastline drops 30' and shifts 50'. 250 miles inland everything will move a foot still. do you have any idea how much fire, flooding, and death there will be?

[plipshevanel]

I stumbled across one of Nick's Volcano lectures on Youtube about a year ago and was unexpectedly captivated to watch the entire thing, which lasted about an hour! As someone who has always held an interest in Geology and Deep History, I really appreciate his efforts to make his University content available to the public.

[cronix]

Yes, I should have said more about the channel. If only we could all have teachers who are so enthusiastic and makes topics very interesting and easy to follow! All of his content is very good and captivating. If anyone is interested in pacific northwest geology, I'd highly recommend watching more of his stuff. He also has his own personal channel separate from CWU here and still making new content: https://www.youtube.com/user/GeologyNick

[rnk]

Nick Z is the king of making it fun and informative to learn about geology. He has dozens of great videos.

[midoridensha]

>The hotspot stays in the same spot, but the earths crust moves over it changing it's position over time.

I'm guessing this is why the Hawaiian islands look the way they do: a hotspot was underneath and formed volcanoes over time, which turned into the islands we now have, as the crust moved northwest.

[ncmncm]

To me the big takeaway from the article was that it would take two years to restore electric power in much of the region.

The tsunami will be much more limited, and over quickly. Rebuilding so much cannot happen very fast.