re: #429 Justanotherhuman

Lived in CA 1960-62 and went through a couple of light ones; I disliked CA intensely, but not because of that. We have nothing here like that, just the occasional threat of a tornado which I’ve never seen in this area of NC. Heavy winds sometimes taking down a few trees, but it’s mostly calm around here as far as natural disasters are concerned. Whew.

Here in the Czech Republic, the major hazard is flooding, typically in the summer months. So, also….whew.

I can’t imagine a megathrust earthquake up in the NW; you’re talking about four or five minutes of nonstop 9.0 shaking. The CSZ is about 600 miles long, and if the whole thing slips, that’s several minutes of pants-filling terror.