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Sandi Doughton is a science reporter at The Seattle Times. She got her start in journalism at The Los Alamos Monitor-a small daily newspaper in the town where the atomic bomb was born. She has also worked at The Santa Fe New Mexican and The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington. She lives in Seattle.

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Subtitle: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest

"No one in the past three hundred years has witnessed a Cascadia megaquake, Not a single soul in the past millennium has weathered a rupture on the Seattle Fault. But hundreds of thousands of people across the Northwest have stories to tell about the third type of earthquake that strikes the region: deep quakes like the one that struck between Olympia and Seattle in 2001"

Now that we're leaving Seattle I am letting to the forefront my earthquake fears, which have been bubbling subconsciously during the 30+ years we have lived here. This book will set no one's fears to rest. It is a history of the geologic and scientific discoveries of the last 30-40 years which have deepened our knowledge of past and potential earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest, otherwise known as the Cascadia subduction zone. There are explanations as to why future earthquakes in this area are likely to be much more powerful and have more dire consequences than quakes in any other part of the continental United States. While no one knows for sure, the consensus belief is that the Pacific Northwest is due or overdue for either a subduction quake or a fault quake, either of which would be devastating, rather than the more run of the mill deep quakes, which are the only kind that have occurred in recorded history here. There's also lots of information about tsunamis, and a discussion about the building code requirements that have been put into place for earthquake protection and whether they will in fact be effective should (or when) a megaquake occurs.

This book probably would appeal to a limited readership, but I found it informative and chilling.

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arubabookwoman | 4 reseñas más. | Jan 5, 2020 |
This book was a thorough overview of the history, preparedness, and physics of the next major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. In this book, Doughton spends time getting into the details of various aspects surrounding seismology and geographically confined to the Pacific Northwest. What starts as an interesting premise quickly devolves into a book with no real direction overloaded with colloquialisms. Doughton writes this book for people, specifically homeowners who live in Seattle and ideally were here in the 2001 Nisqually quake. There is a lot of information that could be interesting to non-residents, but that is never the focus. I have never been to Japan but an overview of Fukushima pre- and post-tsunami could potentially be quite interesting. This book does contain some useful information however I would be prepared to skip large sections of this book unless you happen to live in Seattle.… (más)
 
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pbirch01 | 4 reseñas más. | Oct 31, 2018 |
Well written exploration of earthquake science. The first 2/3 of book covers the science through time and how scientists have been able to determine when quakes have occurred in the past and what the future holds for the NW. The last 1/3 was less informative, but did bring home the need for preparing for the next Big One.
 
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addunn3 | 4 reseñas más. | Dec 4, 2015 |
This a book that everyone living in Cascadia should read. The author does an incredible job of explaining the fascinating geology of the Pacific Northwest and the unavoidable seismic hazards of the region. Its a non dramatized picture (yet still enjoyable to read) of what science really knows (and doesn't know) about the history of earthquakes and tsunamis in the region and of the underlying geophysics that has driven these events. Lots to learn from recent large quakes in Japan and Chile. The Pacific Northwest region is relatively unprepared at this point, but we can do much better if more people are made aware of the real risks and join together to make preperation a high priority for our government and society.… (más)
 
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Jedr | 4 reseñas más. | Jun 19, 2015 |

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