Obligatory scary-ass earthquake story

By Nikki Talotta on April 21, 2011

SHAKING IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>>

Do you know, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, there have been more than 35 earthquakes in Washington State just in the last two weeks?

Do you know we live near one of the most hazardous faults in the world?

Do you know this particular fault line - the Cascadia Subduction Zone - is aching to release a megathrust earthquake?

Now, imagine this fault ruptures and a 9.0 magnitude earthquake violently shakes the Pacific Northwest.

"It would be like a freakishly monstrous catapult that hurls 75,000 square miles of rock, the margin of a continent, as much as 65 feet," says Patrick Pringle, associate professor of Earth Sciences at Centralia College, national author and overall geo-enthusiast.

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