Couldn’t agree more… we have all the money in the world to bail out corporations and the rich, but none of our tax money seems to trickle down to the middle class and infrastructure.
It was very funny and sad to me when she said "There is still time to prepare, we could improve our infrastructure" and my mind just went, lmao. lol, lmao.
You nailed it. And Trump too busy fighting imaginary wars to be thinking about saving A PART OF THE USA. LOL INCOMPETENT PEOPEL FOUNDED AMERICA AND INCOMPETENT PEOPLE STILL RUN IT. and every American just accepts this fact and allows it to happen, stop electing bigots to office and you might get good results
The way things are going, you will need to be prepared far sooner then you should have been. A few immigrants in your country will seem very trivial if and when disaster strikes. You will probably need them immigrants to help rebuild. Perhaps you should have spent your money preparing instead of building and arranging for mega prisons for all those immigrants you need to send somewhere. Perhaps the rich that are getting richer will help and chip in for rebuilding. A sort of trickle down effect. Don't worry! The well funded and well managed FEMA will be there to run the show. They may need to pull some of the national guards from the streets of LA to help. Rest assured that in all of the federal government institutions, only the best of the best problem solvers have been hired to run them.
Oregon!? Ha, right, we're on on own here. If Portland gets hit with the big one there wouldn't be a way out of here. Maybe a route or two, but with all the substandard bridges and infrastructures everywhere ? Good luck. ODOT is announcing that they will be laying off up to 600 workers soon, possibly more. Yeah, this state is not prepared for a catastrophic event. My family has maybe three days worth of "to go" survival items. That's pretty much all I can do due to money limitations. I think it's the same for most people in the state.
Geologists knew long before the 2011 earthquake (by finding sea sand in the strata of Fukushima's local mountains) how high to build the seawall or at least how high to build the backup cooling generators. And they still built them too low in elevation. Knowing and doing something are not the same thing. I live in Oregon and I have zero doubt we will do nothing about the location and build quality of at risk infrastructure. 3 years ago I bought firearms, ceramic water filters, long term calories in mylar bags. Last thing will be a tri fuel generator (gas, propane, natural gas) and a solar setup.
I took a survey class in college (UW-Seattle, almost 20 years ago) that was just presentations from various departments on campus. One of the speakers was working on a method of corroborating stories of indigenous peoples to 'verified' historical records. She mostly spoke of the Cascadia event and how explorers to the area spoke to tribal elders that said that as children, they witnessed the battle between the Thunderbird and the Great Whale that ravaged their lands and wiped out many of their neighbors. The fact that the Japanese (who kept meticulous records of Tsunamis) had a surprise one that coincided with the timeline of local accounts was really neat. It makes me wonder how many other indigenous stories can be corroborated with written records.
I’m a geologist, and I live in the PNW. It’s true, we could have a 9.0 mega thrust quake tomorrow… however it just as easily might not happen for another 100 years, or 300. These things don’t happen at regular, predictable intervals, sometimes there are 150 years between quakes, sometimes it’s 700 years. The AVERAGE interval is 350 years, so by that measure we are “due for the big one” but realistically it COULD be another 2,3,even 400 years. Preparing for something that statistically may very well NOT happen in your lifetime is pretty easy. It’s called basic disaster preparedness, the sort of thing EVERYONE should do. I personally am far more likely to fall victim to flash floods or wildfires than “the big one”.
The individual shouldn’t spend their days over preparing, I agree, but the infrastructure of our region is not prepared. It will be obliterated, no hyperbole. Japan was far and away more prepared than we are and look what happened to them. Basic disaster preparedness is underestimating the destruction that will occur.
@@Thrasher987 I fully agree the magnitude will be huge. What is poor is saying to people that "this event is due" or "this event is overdue" as the PBS video implies We are only just over half way through the average return period of 580 years. It is just as likely to be 580+200 years as 580=200 years. The probability theory behind these statements is poorly understood.
@@tftftf100% agreed. That is why I do not believe that we as individuals should waste our time and energy preparing for it outside of your standard disaster prep. But I strongly believe that government needs to prepare for it NOW because government is slow, corrupt, and inefficient. If they started yesterday, they’d still probably be late, even if the quake doesn’t hit ‘till 2075 lol
@@Thrasher987Japan gets major earthquakes every couple of decades, they SHOULD be more prepared than the PNW which gets a major earthquake oh every 3 or 4 centuries. How exactly should governments prepare for an earthquake that comes every three or 400 years? I mean, it’s probably a good idea to design seismically hardened infrastructure, then again the building or bridge you build today very well could serve its functional lifetime and become obsolete without ever experiencing an earthquake. Does it make sense to require owners of 100 year-old commercial buildings that are nearing the end of their lifespan, to seismically retrofit their buildings? Probably not. Portland, Oregon for a while was considering spending nearly $1 billion to tunnel an earthquake proof, waterline under the Willamette river. A waterline with an estimated 75 year lifespan that would have sat unused, requiring constant maintenance “just in case”. To their credit they came to their senses. I don’t know, it’s an interesting question. What is the proper level of municipal preparedness for an earthquake that comes along every few hundred years?
As a former Portlander, without having watched the video yet, I suspect this is going to be about how we cleverly built all our oil and gas infrastructure right on top of liquefaction zones. Edit: Called it! Haha cool.
And, unlike the Sendai Airport in Japan, we know and do nothing. They were flying relief flights two days after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in and out of Sendai because they had hardened the runways in preparation. It’s not like we don’t know.
@@awesomerpowerJapan sees hundreds of earthquakes in a very short time and it's a small country. It's absurd to expect the same level of preparation. But there are millions of houses in Japan that don't even meet basic earthquake standards from 1981.
@mediocreman2 I am familiar with both Japan and the PNW. At every level, Japan has better and more Earthquake resistant buildings. First of all, it's very common for Japanese people to tear down their old homes and build new ones. Within neighbourhoods that aren't new, I see a lot more new homes in Japan compared to the PNW even in rural parts. Second, it's not uncommon for traditional houses to install seismic upgrades. And traditional Japanese houses are already much safer in earthquakes compared to many western house designs. Lastly, there was barely any thought of earthquake preparedness only a handful of decades ago in the PNW. I know lots of people that went to schools made of brick. Meanwhile Japanese culture and tradition has been constantly shaped and informed by the presence of earthquakes. While sure, the earthquake readiness of Japan may not be perfect, I don't think the two regions are even comparable.
I guess the real issue here is that in order to solve this oil storage problem the declining oil industry has to be cajoled into investing into new storage.
@@Rochellesettle Most of Europe is pretty safe, at least until climate change makes us have more extreme storms. In Ukraine our worst natural disasters are thunderstorms and blizzards. They kill a few people per year and cause a few blackouts. Obviously we have other dangers, but they're entirely unnatural.
Not Pacific Northwest but Japan here. Knowing you neighbors is important indeed. Rescue might not be coming for a while. We have ready bags, my daughter has drills in school, we have community gathering with firefighters from time to time. If there is something sure, for the past 30 years devastating earthquakes we had, they happened mostly where it was the least expected.
Ive watch an incredible documentary about how Japan is prepared for almost any potential disaster. Japan is located in a place on earth where it's exposed to every potential catastrophy. I was impress about how your Governement is actualy investing in the safety of the Japanese citizen. Meanwhile, The U.S citizen strongly believe in a false god and governed by the orange clown that dont give a single f*ck about the U.S citizen.
@@santaclaws50I wouldn’t say uneducated. Japan has frequent earthquakes and kinda constantly in our minds. Still, many people lose their life when a big one happens. No fear mongering but just be aware and be ready.
Given how long we have known about this, it is truly disheartening to see how little has been done to prepare for this. For one, those tanks should have been moved ages ago--we should be electrifying more so we don't need those tanks!
Our PNW multi-suburb area had a community meeting about earthquake preparedness. It was well attended and one of the strongest sentiments from the crowd was wanting to understand how the firefighters and police were planning to rescue the citizens. One of the officials said “Honestly we won’t be around bc we’ll be saving our own families.” The crowd was angry with this answer. Several people from the wealthiest areas expressed the belief that their neighborhood should have service before other neighborhoods with the unsaid but clear “bc you know…we’re the wealthy people.” I happen to know a handful of people who are involved in helping to prepare with education, ham radio drills, water storage backup, etc but it isn’t the norm. We’ve attended the meetings for these groups and it’s populated with senior citizens looking for something to do, which is wonderful, but we were the only younger people. My husband and I have tried talking to people in our life like other parents at play dates and the earthquake subject isn’t well received. People change the subject! Or they behave as though they have it all under control when it’s obvious they don’t. Our family has been educating ourselves and we know we’re not ready. One mom told us her family was fine bc she has a huge bag of rice in the pantry. 😔So in summary…It seems our government isn’t able to reach its people, and the people don’t want to be reached.
Everyone loves PBS/NPR, as long as they’re not obviously biased. No one could beat Nina Totenberg’s analysis of legal issues of the day, she was brilliant. And you could not detect her personal political affiliation. I used to love listening to PBS/NPR, but when I see that I’m not getting objective information, I’m not willing for self-indulgent journalism to be paid for with tax dollars. Public funding comes with a responsibility to serve everyone, not just your own “club.” Unfortunately, it seems the left has lost the capacity to be objective. Hence, I support defunding despite countless hours of watching and listening over many years.
@@caity2460 Bias is bias. Taxpayers deserve objectivity. Bias leads inevitably to biased selection of “facts.” When you see it you can’t unsee it. When people are so convinced they’re correct, they don’t give contradictory facts the time of day.
@@user-ht6bt4mt7true. It’s unfortunate that it’s come to defunding instead of reforming. Edit: when I research a topic or event I read all news outlets versions to get the big picture, so that must be why the choices of one media outlet doesn’t bother me.
@@user-ht6bt4mt7 It is not the fault of public broadcasting that the facts lean left. There is SO MUCH misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, and out-and-out LIES coming from the executive branch and all the way down to podcasters running block for those lies, it is staggering. Facts are facts. Facts aren't biased. Science should be followed. Not just doing whatever the corporate sugar daddies tell you to do.
Community is King in a Crisis!! Lived through many hurricanes and sharing supplies with neighbors was always easy because they were already sharing with you... Lived under Marshal Law without electricity for 3 weeks for one of them and everyone was wonderful, loving and caring... that's what got us all through!!
You are so right! All these doomscrollers calling each other fool and trying to out-cynic and smug-blame the other one...but when the SHTF the neighbors you never really noticed or thought about turn out to be the most helpful people, and you might even catch a little of that "love your neighbor as yourself" (and vice-versa). Thing is, just like the current socio-political situation, this Cascadia event is going to be of such a scale and last so long, that the whole fabric of how to live and what works for the individuals and the government, the 'hood, the society is going to have to evolve into something we haven't really known before. Classes I've attended, study I've done, tells me here in Rogue Valley we''re likely to be on our own for 3-5 months before serious aid of scale from outside can come in. FEMA plans (if FEMA even survives Trump & Noem) call for Bend to be the staging area for relief; all infrastructure (roads, bridges, dams, fuel and power grids, hospitals, grocery and other stores) west of the Cascades is likely to suffer catastrophic damage in the projected 8.5 - 9+ Richter scale shown in the geologic records. Depending on where it occurs, the 100 foot tsunami (yes, that is a realistic possibility) could devastate the coast anywhere from the Cal-Or border to Puget Sound, back water up the Columbia River, not to mention bounce back and forth in the Pacific basin a few times. Alaska, NE Russia, Korea & Japan share the fun. So a couple long seasons of no cars; no groceries; no Amazon; no city sewer & water; no electricity; no internet/media; no fire fighting in the forests or the towns; animals domestic and wild running loose; and freaked, injured, sick and traumatized people doing their best, and their worst. All we're really gonna have is each other.
@@feedigli Thanks! Just to assure you I did see several "Domesday Prepper" episodes years ago where people in the Oregon area were stocking supplies, specifically to share with their neighbors in case of a crisis. Hopefully we never will see it happen.
What I heard in this video is that when this disaster strikes don't count on the government coming to the rescue. Many areas will be inaccessible, so folks in some neighborhoods will have no one but each other to turn to for help.
Also assume that the Cascadia quake will happen while another region of the country is reeling from a different major disaster, whether a wildfire, hurricane, or something like the East Palestine OH chemical spill, which will limit any aid resources available. Furthermore, assume that the national media will move on to the next disaster within a couple of months.
229,769 NON-VOTERS handed Trump the presidency. Every Supreme Court decision and policy fight we’re battling today stems from the moment 229,769 Americans chose to stay home instead of voting in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The responsibility lies with those apathetic non-voters who failed to protect our country. Quit blaming MAGA die-hards who will never budge; aim your energy where it matters - turn those 229,769 stay-at-home neighbors into ballots in the next election.
I live in Portland, and I live in fear about this stuff to a certain extent. Especially because I’m physically disabled. Ty for the story, and thinking of us up here in beautiful Cascadia
Don't live in fear about it. If you look at the video and the numbers they said, it's also likely that this won't happen (earthquakes will happen, but they're taking about the worst possible outcome.) I've lived though 2 major earthquakes. Have a solid disaster kit.
All that stuff the vid says about neighbours helping each other ... as a disabled person, expect that to pan out about how it did for people wearing face masks to avoid infecting and killing vulnerable people during the pandemic. Speaking as another disabled person, although thankfully living with family that I know do value my life, I would encourage you to think about moving somewhere that you don't have to worry about earthquake, tsunami, wildfire, and toxic gas spills. Your life is precious, even if the people around you don't see it that way. You are worth saving.
Some strange near-hostility happening here. I’m a paralyzed double amputee who can’t transfer and requires a power chair. As far as the 1st commenter: I don’t live in terror every day, but it’s certainly on my radar. 2nd person: why do you assume everyone owns a house or can afford to just pick up and move?
This is not fearmongering , it’s just how the earth works. Just be prepared as much as you can. That’s all. I experienced a serious wildfire last week in Greece. 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan. Tsunami alert in Kodiak Island. I live in AK where the earthquakes happen pretty often. So no need to fear. Understand them and be prepared. You can see all of that in my shorts by the way. I really appreciate PBS!
just because you didn't experience death and severe loss, doesn't mean that's not a bigger and bigger risk. Fear is a rational response. So is infastructure upgrades which requires policy change and budget support.... it's not just a personal issue
I'm from WA. We learned about how serious the "big one" will be in the 90s at school. They have known how serious the situation is for decades and have refused to add any preparatory infrastructure. Seattle is going to sink. I'm surprised some buildings haven't. The state has left the responsibility to maintain the old Seattle underground to the building owners- who have continously ignored it. It is already unstable without an earthquake in the mix. But, honestly, it feels like an illustration of the US in a nutshell
They were telling us in the 1960s in my elementary school that we were waiting for a big one on the west coast. They told us then it would likely happen within the next 20 years. They were probably referring to the San Andreas potential but it's interesting to me "the big one" label gets hung on different areas over time.
I live on the east side of Washington State. We would probably feel shaking here but that’s about it. I do have some fear for family on the west side. Mt Rainier, Saint Helens and Mt Adam are a concern for the whole state if they were to erupt.
Why, my daughters live in Renton, near lake Washington. They are flight attendants. Hopefully they will be out of town 😢. I heard west of the interstate 5 is safer than east. @bobsacamano7653
I got another 20 years maybe left on this planet and what it was like through the 60's, 70's and 80's is nothing like what it is today. I mean there's no intimate relationship with your neighbors for the most part, some are very isolated, some even hostile and I got one neighbor who's stolen from me. Back in the day we'd have community parties, baseball games, birthday parties in the park with neighbors enjoying in the festivities, good luck relying on others for your survival.
Most people hire out for all their home maintenance & never get their hands dirty; this earthquake will be a great equalizer. The average homeowner can't even shut off their gas line.
@@misterfunnybones Think of all the goods and services you are using that you have no skills for. There are far more useful skills than just being able to do maintenance. Your thinking is very narrow.
As an elderly person I realize that personal preparedness only goes so far. If help does not arrive within a week or maybe 2, the death toll is increased exponentially.
That's true. There's a statistic that all major cities in America have only enough food on hand in stores to feed the population for 3 days, with extreme rationing. Yet we've seen how people make frantic runs and even riots for non-necessities, like toilet paper. This is why families should have enough food and water to last 2 weeks, and a way to filter water.
Portlander here. We all talk about earthquake preparedness kits, but most people I know don't have one (I do). This was really interesting to watch, as an electrical engineer thinking about working in power next now that Intel's collapsing, maybe I'll look into those jobs here and see if I can work on building infrastructure to handle the big quake. I was just going to move abroad, but it's interesting to be reminded of the need here.
I grew up and worked on the Washington coast. One of my final projects was helping install tsunami warning sirens in the town where I worked and lived. I retired and moved away from the beautiful coast and now just worry about wildland wildfires.
the worst part is that we COULD have the infrastructure to survive and even thrive through this, but because of corporate greed and the hoarded wealth of the 1% here we are- they can flee in their private jets to their secure bunkers somewhere far away while the commonfolk bear the consequences of their actions
It is entirely likely that the runways will be destroyed and the jets will not be going anywhere. Look at the pictures from the Alaska quake from the 1960s.
It takes cooperation to accomplish large tasks. This "every man for himself" attitude is dooming us. I used to think the same way as you. I grew up though. Maybe you should try it.
I’m reminded of when I was reviewing for my civil engineering license back in 1994. At the time we used the Uniform Building Code. There was a graphic showing west coast seismic risk zones along California. And all the lines turned to zero at the Oregon-California border and stayed zero all the way to Canada. So yes, most structures in OR and WA weren’t built to withstand shaking.
I live in Portland. Here’s what I’ve done: 1. Solar panels with battery backup 2. An EV with a charger in the garage. 3. Retrofitted my basement to prevent the house from shifting off the foundation. 4. Have seeds in long term storage for growing crops. 5. Have emergency food kits for 3 months 6. Have weapons 7. Camping gear Things left to do: 1. Build an in ground cistern.
@@Encephalitisify earthquake, hurricane, tornado, tsunami, flood, wind, snow, thunderstorm - 1st thing out is electricity. You're right about it being better to have a bike or an atv tho. Just not an electric one. . .
Sounds like you're fairly well prepared. Solar panels will charge the car - maybe not really fast, but better than nothing. Probably better to get the cistern dug now, unless you know the water table is high under your property; you're not going to want to be crawling down a 50 or 100 foot hole digging to get water.
I grew up in Everett wa and this has always been a concern. Crazy to think all the million bridges would be compromised and people wouldn't be able to leave
I live East of Everett by quite a ways. We would rather keep the voters bottled up in the Seattle/Everett/Olympia/Tacoma area. Let them stay in the “paradise” they created
They won't all collapse. Most bridges on interstate highways and many on major state highways have been seismically retrofitted to survive a cascadia earthquake.
I have researched quite deeply on this and cannot find any meaningful preparations about food supplies, because our main source of food supplies currently, is the 5 Freeway.
There are multiple ways of researching food supplies, most cites covering emergency preparedness have ample information as to what and how to go about it.
there's a video that OPB put out a number of years ago, "Unprepared." One of the best hours of video you can watch (it's on RUclips). Best to think in terms of three months of food rather than 3 days; water purification supplies; and possibly a lithium battery power station and some good solar panels. The state of Oregon has been beefing up US 97 through Oregon as the "replacement" highway for north-south freight traffic when I-5 fails (still a lot of bridges built with pre-stressed concrete girders that will fail). It's likely that every highway from the valley to Central Oregon will have at least one bridge that fails. And, as always, the nation's news focus will be on Seattle, because how interesting is a bridge you can't see at the bottom of the river, compared to the Space Needle lying on its side? Our only hope is that the fires in the West Hills of Portland get some attention, along with all the pollution floating downriver to the ocean from the oil and chemical spills.
Wa resident here; I can't imagine preparing for this, the worst natural disaster. Prepping to live off the land for 3-6 months in the event that you don't die or so severely injured that you need emergency help is all one can do. I have some food stores, rocket stove and water purifier but I don't imagine that will keep me alive in this event.
Getting prepared sounds daunting but doable if you want it. Make a list and buy one thing every time you go shopping. Eventually you’ll have food, fuel, water, etc. Just get started, and for a little extra money today, any disaster that comes your way will be more survivable.
I've turned my little van into a travel camper with everything I need. Tested one winter in Arizona, and two summers in Oregon and it worked out good. I keep it ready at all times. It's my goto bag for sleeping, resting, eating writing, and editing video on my laptop.
When I was in school back in the 1900s, we were taught this earthquake happens every 1000 years and that it would happen within the next 100 years. Some time ago, they updated it to be within the next 50 years.
New info narrowed the expected date. Ignore it to your peril. I certainly hope the quake does little damage, but if I lived near a fuel depot, I would seriously consider moving.
Here's hoping people take earthquake and emergency prep seriously. The devastation will be enormously widespread, and FEMA won't be around to help. Even when it was at full capacity to help, it never would have been nearly enough. Those who prepare will be the ones surviving.
I live in Japan. I’ve seen the Fukushima disaster. I live south of the zone and I felt the aftershocks hundreds of miles south. So, Northwest US, good luck.😢
Not only the CSZ, but the shallow crustal faults in the Puget Sound are also a major risk for that region. A 7.0 on the Seattle Fault would produce more shaking in the Puget Sound than a 9.0 on the CSZ. Given that both faults are potentially due for a large rupture, this dramatically increases the risk for the region
I will always remember how when the sunset came on the day after the 2011 Japanese Tsunami, the searchers were called home from the wreckage strewn coastal flats with a song played on loudspeakers in the hills. The song was "Yesterday" by the Beatles. It tore the heart from me to see. I don't want that here.
Hi, thank you for your great show! I live in Portland, Or. We checked our gas line to be sure there’s a manual shut off, we strapped our basement to the foundation and put 8 inch screws through beams-and joists. And hoard water. The goals are to safely get out of the house before it collapses and prevent a gas leak fire.
It is insane how uncommon seismic gas shutoffs are around here. It literally prevents your house from exploding in an earthquake but almost nobody has them.
12:00 is a refreshing change. You can't avoid all these risks, but you can build a strong community to withstand and recover from them. Look for the helpers.
We had our house in Portland, Oregon seismically retrofitted after learning about the Great Cascadia quake. This could give us a fighting chance of surviving the initial shocks and evacuating the region.
We live in Milwaukie and are seriously considering doing the same for our home. Would you recommend the company you worked with? And how costly were your upgrades?
And when your neighbors and marauders see you are doing well, what do you think is going to happen? Better have a safe basement environment to hide in.
6-12 months no power?....As a homebody that is a nightmare :( Hopefully this doesn't happen anytime soon & when it does....I hope we are somewhat prepared by then.
Watching from Alaska. To date, Alaska is home to the second largest quake in modern history (9.2). In 2018, a 7.1 quake hit 30 miles from our house. That was scary! I grew up in earthquake country as well....Southern California.
I was 13 years old just north of Anchorage for the Good Friday, March 27, 1964, shaker. It shook for a long time. Mountain tops looked like waves ...Drivers on the road thought maybe Russia had attacked with bombs as their cars bounced. The Wikipedia says "...magnitude 9.2-9.3 megathrust earthquake remains the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America, and the second most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the world since modern seismography began in 1900."
My partner and I are in the Puget Sound region and recently signed up for our city’s community emergency response training- hope we never have to use it, and praying we can gather the political will to mobilize for infrastructure and systems improvement before this happens!!
I live up in northern Idaho. While not in the immediate danger zone, we're the refugee zone. We're _hoping_ that when we can finally have a house built, part of the shop (ICF build) will have extra hookups for commercial kitchen equipment and laundry. We'd like to add a few RV pads to rent over the summer for side income and add solar electric and hot water systems. We want the property to be ready if Cascadia rips. Property features that will help the property generate an income will be able to be put into action helping provide food, shelter, and basic sanitation when the fault lets go and our neighbors to the west need our help.
You'll want a really big vegetable garden, and a basement full of freeze dried and vacuum stored food ready to feed the five thousand. People eat more when they're shocked and scared. Also a really good toilet system and water supply, if you're not on town services. Thank you for being a good neighbour.
@@johntitorii6676 oh yeah. but we won't experience anywhere near the level of devastation that the coast will. Natural disaster resistance is part of our planned build. We're looking at ICF (insulated concrete form) with appropriate levels of reinforcement. We want a "green" house, but ICF will give us something that can resist both earthquakes, and more importantly, wild fire.
@@tealkerberus748 lol, our plans are well above what we can afford, but one of the things we want is a geothermal greenhouse. There's a gent out of Oklahoma or Nebraska that has pioneered a design where he's harvesting oranges in January. Also planned is a substantial root cellar. I don't know yet if we can do it, but we're looking at a large septic system for the house and shop. The shop will have living quarters in it as well. The RV hookups will be on their own septic if we're allowed to install two systems.
I lived in Oregon over 50 years, and the central coast for 15. I was a trainer for the local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) where I trained volunteers and neighborhood groups on topics like preparedness, emergency first aid and triage, search and rescue, even morgue protocols for isolated communities. Cascadia is a survivable event, but the recovery would take months or years. I finally decided, after all I knew and all the preparation that had been done, I really didn't want to be there when it happened. So I moved to Tornado Alley where it is much safer!
I live near Seattle. This quake could also trigger an eruption of Mt. Rainier, which is a much larger volcano than Mt. St. Helens, which erupted in 1980 causing massive devastation in the area and beyond. The native Americans in the area have a saying, "Little Sister whispers, Big Brother roars." Mt St. Helens is "Little Sister". Guess who "Big Brother" is...
It probably wouldn't cause an eruption, at least not immediately, but could definitely shake loose some of the rotten rock (it's a volcanic thing) and ice and cause a fast-moving lahar. Orting, the Port of Tacoma, and other communities are built on old lahars.
The earthquake alert text going out 30 minutes and 2 hours after the 4.2 we had recently was absolutely wild. Does it really take 30-120minutes to decide if the thing making all the windows shudder at the same time is an earthquake?? If there's a tsunami, we're all going to be notified underwater 🙃
Right!? Priorities are way off on both sides of the boarder. What a day it will be when millions of us die and suffer, but we can host The World Cup. I hope I am not jinxing us by saying this, but wouldn't it be ironic for Cascadia to slip during The World Cup events?
We have learned that ostriches don’t actually hide their heads in the sand. We’ve always known that people do. Remember those videos of people walking along the beach after the sea receded during the Boxing Dat tsunami? No opportunity for them to learn from their mistakes.
I hate all the solutions required are ifs and companies to actually wanna fix it. We saw during the bp oil spill how companies don't care and won't invest in maintenance. Sadly a lot of people are going to suffer cus of corporate greed. Plus all this deregulation surely will help this situation.
@@darlingcorinne the Portland City Council passed an ordinance about a decade ago, outlawing new energy (fuel) infrastructure in Portland because of global warming. So, unless some radically different people get elected, a new law is not going to happen.
I live in Ocean Shores, a town on Grays Harbor in Washington. A teacher in central Washington introduced a new scenario that puts our town 30ft down during a full-rip Cascadia earthquake. Bug-out bags and elevated towers aren't gonna fix it. There will be no Ocean Shores because, according to this Teacher, it'll be 50ft west and 30ft lower. the only occupants left will be clams and crabs. When the tsunami gets done, there won't even be road to escape on and the single road out will be fill of parked cars, watching people exchange insurance cards at the shape corner right outside of the city.
Scenario sounds about right. You could move to Oklahoma or Missouri; houses are cheap, and all they worry about is tornados, civil strife, flooding, losing AC in the humid summer heat or the furnace in the 20 below winter. It all depends what kind of troubles you want in life; no place is immune, and some are nicer now than others.
What I think is really neat is how the geologic record shows that since the southern end of Cascadia meets the northern end of San Andreas, every time the whole length of Cascadia has let go it's caused major quakes along San Andreas. But don't worry, only Geology lecturers ever talk about it.
I mean...isn't SanFran our most earthquake-resistantly built city? Don't get me wrong, I literally am avoiding any travel to Cascadia to not get swept up in the megaquake, but other than maybe some less extreme parts of the tsunami, the Bay Area should probably escape any damage. I'm picturing something like NYC's Hurricane Sandy, as compared to Portland and SeaTac's Double Katrina with Sauce
@@Copyright_Infringement Chances are the whole thing won't let go, so the Bay Area could just have to deal with a tsunami but the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the San Andreas Fault and the Mendocino Transform all meet at the Mendocino Triple Junction, where the North American, Pacific and Juan de Fuca plates all meet, all moving in different directions relative to each other. If that point becomes destabilized (and Cascadia is the likely candidate), everything moves. So it's possible for everyone from Vancouver to Cabo San Lucas to have a seismically really bad day. I'm not saying that will happen any time soon, but the geologic record shows us it has happened more than once already.
@@Copyright_Infringement yes the Bay Area hopefully avoids damage, only SF and the coast is exposed, and we're far south of Seattle, should be able to absorb a smaller earthquake
@@danielzhang1916San Francisco has little exposure to tsunami from Cascadia. It’s far to the the east of the epicenter as well as being far south, and the Golden Gate is so narrow not much of a tsunami can enter. The coast starting a hundred miles or so north of San Francisco is gonna get slammed. The big tsunami threat to San Francisco down to San Diego that we know of is a potential flank collapse of one of the Hawaiian volcanoes. That would send an immense wall of water toward the West Coast.
I live in Oregon just barely east of the mountains. I am most concerned with water availability. I am in the process of setting up a rain catchment system to begin a permaculture process on 10 acres. Thank you for your programs on this, Maya.
If you're just outside the disaster zone, then you're in the refugee zone. You'll need a big vegetable garden and enough freeze-dried food vacuum-stored in your basement to feed hundreds of people. Also look at your sanitation, because those people are going to need toilets and access to showers and laundry facilities. It won't really be a lot of refugees, because most people in the disaster zone are going to die. But for everyone who does manage to crawl out, you need to be ready to help them. How long it takes for government and NGOs to move people further away so you're not left trying to support hundreds of people long-term really depends on the government of the day.
Having rain catchment is important. Salem will only allow a limited amount which I think should change. In fact I believe everyone in Oregon that owns property should have a rain catchment system in place.
@@feedigliTry being in a disaster zone sometime. The relief workers are the neighbors in the red hats, while the looters are the ones claiming that voting for anyone other than a Democrat should be a capital offense.
I lived in Portland from 2005>2011. I returned to Los Angeles after 5 years for a few reasons. One of them was this impending quake, which virtually No ONE talked about, or was aware of. Then it hits, the Pac NW will be isolated for weeks, at least half the buildings and bridges will collapse. It'll be horrible.
Considering the poor quality of construction and materials in US infrastructure and housing I think you're being very optimistic with your predictions.
I grew up in Snohomish county in WA in the 80s and 90s. As long as I can remember, I knew about “The Big One.” I still live along the Pacific Coast and every moderate shake or bump, I wait and wonder if it’s “The Big One.” Thank you for this report! I was surprised to hear that the West Coast could experience a blackout for so long after the earthquake. Im taking steps to get my family’s go-bags ready.
I disagree ..It Has everything to do with the Amout of true fukery that will happen if the Orange Taco is in Power.... Respectfully I agree with her..our leaders are sHit atm@@scottdennis8287
I love the ending of the video. I do believe there are a lot more pro-social behaviors in a disaster. Don't let all those zombie TV shows make you think people are selfish. The more I learned about the truth of Hurricane Katrina response, the more I realized people are mostly good.
I'm not in the pacific northwest, but I always travel with a kit. I'm a travel nurse and figure I could be in any situation that requires me to be able to live out of my vehicle or to provide first aid. I always have something on hand. Heck, I was in St. Louis during this last snow fall and my little military shovel allowed me to get out of my parking space to get to work.
@@WhiteleafYeosu One part is purchased. I got it off of amazon. Has 3 days of food and water, ability to start a fire, small first aid kit, and other survival equipment in it. The rest is an augmented first aid kit, I have my stethoscope, bp cuff, and a finger o2sat. Then I have a small shovel, knife, and hatchet. Two wool blankets and emergency triangles, and a window hammer/seatbelt cutter. I also have a couple of SAM splints, hand crank weather radio, and flashlights.
Have you ever heard the native legend of Thunderbird and Whale? The gist is: don't build your settlement too close to the shore. If Thunderbird and Whale fight, it could be wiped out. Thunderbird is the earthquake, and Whale is the tsunami.
@kirklanyoshinaga8953 legends, landmarks and lore has a great short explaing it.. I added the link in another comment in case yt removes it just search whale and Thunderbird
This, yellowstone and the sun exploding in 5 billion years were my worst fears when i was small. At least this one is realistic, though I'm not worried yet. Good video.
10,000 family years without grocery stores and toilet paper... now... what to eat today if the grocery storage and emergency go-bags were lost as a result of the disaster ...the bridges down ...no more power nor phone? ...stored gasoline degrading a lot during the first year ...People could chew on bushes and roots until they discovered ones that satisfied their hunger. Meanwhile, consuming enough calories to keep the strength up would be a challenge for most folks accustomed to eating labeled food from stores.
They were able to live lightly because they had small populations. Lower populations are inherently far more resilient to pretty much any change, these days even the slightest disruption to modern technology or global supply chains can be catastrophic.
@@_Channel1_ I feel like adding a chorus of "...scoobee-du-wah.." to that. Maybe related to memories of being a younger child on a homestead in Alaska before statehood, sitting warm by the wood stove, and Mom reading me Polyanna. Times were tough, but in a good way. ...I'll be 75 in a month. Forest fires in 3 directions ...but the smoke has blown thru and the air is clearer, today. Truck wheel was off for a few days. Got the brakes fixed. We can drive again, if the fires get too close. .. See? It might be over 100F in a few hours, but everything is cool ...scoobee-du-wah scoo-bee-du.
USCG did a table top simulation of this several yrs ago. Damage to everything west of I5 is likely to be so severe that rescue resources plan to prioritize what remains to the east.
In an hour drive north-south, there are so many bridges over roadways and waterways, it seems the only reasonable direction to go is east up whatever hill you live near. But I would have to cross 101 where I live. If the overpass holds, I might be ok. time of day and time of year will have a huge effect, too.
I live in Canada's Pacific _Southwest,_ just across the border from America's Pacific Northwest. I live in the middle floor of a 55-year-old wood-and-concrete low-rise apartment building, built before we even knew about the Cascadia fault. If I'm at home when the fault lets go, I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up pancaked into the underground parking level.
Are we neighbours? Same here. I know I need to have a 72 hour go-bag, but I'm not even sure I'll make it out of my building alive. At the very least, apartment buildings like ours should be made to provide secure storage outside of the building where residents can keep emergency supplies. No one in BC ever really talks about the impacts after the Big One hits. Real planning and preparation would cost too much money and too many lost votes. They're more interested in developing gas pipelines and LNG ports.
Canada is supposed to value its citizens' lives better than that. It should be illegal to rent out accommodation that hasn't been retrofitted and passed inspection as being safe in the event of the worst case earthquake. If they can't retrofit, they need to demolish and rebuild. Building for earthquakes is just a matter of the right engineering and good workers who follow the plans.
@@progenitrixMight want to plan for NOT being at home when a big one hits, too. If your bldg truly will be matchsticks, your prepped stuff will be useless.
@@progenitrix I live by Arcata Bay and have a storage unit in Chico. The rent for my 10x10 just went from 70 to 110 dollars. Who could afford them when like every other industry, corporations buy out the mom 'n' pops? Most of them, rightly so, don't allow storage of food and water, because rodents WILL infest the place.
I live north of Seattle about 15 miles from the Salish Sea, and I bought an old trailer to keep in the backyard. It holds 40 gallons of water and 40 pounds of propane and has 380 watts of solar. We are told to prepare for a month without any help, so it will depend on which month the earthquake hits in. Summer preferably since I tend to drain the water tanks when the forecast is for freezing weather, however I have started spending winter in warmer areas, so I would watch on the news if it happens in winter. There are so many bridges in this area that nobody knows or thinks about if they aren’t working in the streets or highway departments, and I expect many of them to be damaged, or closed at least until inspection. My main concern after getting out of the house would be if I had enough food to last a month and potentially to share. I normally would supplement water with rain water that I filtered, but our summer is very dry, and this spring was incredibly dry, so water could be an issue both for drinking, and also for putting out fires that the earthquake might start
I live on Whidbey Island off the coast of WA. This terrifies me. I have all sorts of food, water, & emergency supplies for my family and pets. And go bags. But none of that will matter if there will be raging fires and toxic gas, not to mention that we would quickly run out of water (assuming no our water supplies survived the quake) . Plus we’d be trapped on an island (thinking about the Maui fires here), with no rescue and possibly no aid drops for what could be months. It’s given me pretty extreme anxiety for almost two years now. I’ve extensively researched other states, but (for all the reasons she mentioned) nowhere else is without issue. Do I purposely move somewhere that’s already experiencing issues (though not nearly as bad as what it’d be like if the Cascadia went), or roll the dice and stay where I am and just hope it doesn’t happen in my lifetime???? I feel like it’s consumed my life. BTW, for anyone not from here, there are also 5 active volcanos in WA alone, one of which (Mt. Ranier) I heard a volcanologist say keeps them up at night. Fun times. The PNW is so incredibly beautiful. And terrifying.
I just looked - the highest point on Whidbey Island is 484 feet, so there's a chance of survival of a tsunami if you get to higher ground. But, I'd want a home at least 150 feet above sea level where I could store all my supplies. If it has a lot of trees, owning a chain saw would be a big bonus, so that you could cut timber for a place to land a rescue helicopter.
In Columbus, Ohio, natives told European Americans not to build near one of the rivers due to intense flooding events, but they were ignored. Instead of not doing anything, however, they tore down the building closest to the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers and built flood walls. A lot of people still deal with flooded basements in certain low points in the city. At least they did something though after to fix it.
The natives of the Valley of Mexico had a system that kept fresh and salt water in Lake Texcoco separate, in addition to preventing flooding. The Spanish ignored them, and now the city floods every year. We shouldn't ignore the advice of people who have lived there for THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
If you want a nightmare scenario - look at the location of the Burnaby Mountain Tank Farm. The terminus of the Trans Mountain Pipeline - up on a freaking mountain - above Burnaby Lake and the City of Burnaby. (Part of Greater Vancouver).
I forget about that one, and every time I'm reminded of it, I question how tf I could forget about it... (willful blocking, I see it on my bus route 🫠)
Richmond's international airport built on a river delta just a couple feet over sea level, up against said ocean, is in trouble. That's leaves Abbotsford airport as the closest airport to receive aid flights - and that's only if the bridges over the Fraser are still intact.
Eek. Prepare? Nothing. I moved from Honolulu a year ago and left all of my prep stuff with people there who I figured need it more than I. That said, most was tsunami prep. Not toxic plumes. Not earthquake. Guess it's time to get on that. Thanks for the update. And neighbors in Kern/Buckman, I'm retired from ER/trauma nursing in my mid-40s to do something else, but that knowledge base never truly leaves you. If this happens in our lifetime, I'll be looking to help anyone who needs it. 🤙
Knowing America as a PNW native, we will do absolutely nothing to prepare for this, as that would cut into corporate profits. Any help at all I would expect from Canada but they'd be just as fucked as we are. The reality is everyone west of the Cascades will die within a week of the quake as all roads will be destroyed and the waterways packed with debris making rescue ships untenable. Helicopters can only get so far and carry so much on their own fuel tanks, and that's assuming fire hasn't erupted - everywhere - which, with recent history as an example, if it occurs between May and Oct, fire definitely will be uncontrollable. And that's best case assuming that Rainer, Baker, St. Helens, Adams and Hood decide to sit this round of big one out. And that the Columbia stays it's current course. The take away is no one will be coming to save us, for weeks.
Wow, you are really misinformed. It is amazing with the internet and yet many people don't bother to go look up information from accurate sources. Go look up earthquake and tsunami info provided by WA state and you will see there is a lot being done to prepare. All modern codes take these things into account.
Yes, sometimes an earthquake can trigger a volcano. Surviving this quake will take weeks, if not years. It will be a long term grind. You may lose everything, including all your family and friends. Then you have to start over again from zero. For some, it may not be worth it.
A Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake will be bad, but not that bad. Everybody west of the Cascades is not going to die, and the Columbia River is not going to change course. However, it will be chaos for many weeks and months afterwards.
As someone who lives 2 hours east of where Hurricane Helene devastated the mountains of North Carolina, you’re absolutely right. There were no ways in or out for days except by helicopter. That area is roughly the size of Belgium and less populated because of the terrain. A lot of those folks also have lived there for generations and know how to “rough it.” FEMA is notoriously under equipped for large scale disasters like this in the early hours and days afterwards and it was no different here. This area of the PNW is far more populated and larger. And many folks in cities don’t have the knowledge or resources to survive and “rough it out.” The consequences of an earthquake like this would be absolutely catastrophic. Everyone needs a “go bag”, a paper map, and needs to make sure they know community members around them to come together and help each other survive.
I have had the privilege of visiting the northwest only one time so far in my life. I am from the southeast but immediately felt at home in the midst of the firs, spruces, hemlocks etc. of what I thought was a magical land. Pretty soon I found out that my paradise had the deadly secret of this fault. So true to most things in life. I still would live there if I could.
It's beautiful here. Every place I've lived has had a danger, though. Tornadoes, hurricanes, heatwaves, blizzards, flash floods. Mother Nature reminds us that we're only human, and try as we might, we can't fully control nature.
Politicians are not going to do anything about it because it cost real money to do something about the safety of millions. That's $$$$ that can go in there own pockets instead.
There's a 100 per cent chance of it happening. It's just whether it's in the next 50 years or the next 150 years. Has been happening regularly for at least 18,000 years - they can tell this from the bands of sand in coastal soils.
@@I_author_articles Or you could take the time to investigate why that expert said that. Japan has been recording tsunami events since 684 AD. In comparison the earliest mention of a recorded American event mentioned in this episode was 300 years ago. The time difference between those two recorded events is 1341 years. So yeah, Japan has been paying attention for more than 1000 years longer than the USA.
I don't live in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, I don't live on the Pacific coast anywhere. However, I have a worry wart friend who was over agonizing over a Yellowstone eruption. I told him, forget Yellowstone, worry about the Cascadia fault, it is Over Due! Now he worries about both. Aren't I a good friend? (Oh, and I did tell him originally about Yellowstone, but I had said it probably wouldn't be in our lifetimes.)
There are other faults in the Intermountain West. Northern Utah is at great risk, and we have very few seismically reinforced buildings. After moving here from Seattle, we found out our unreinforced masonry house is one block from a major fault.
@@peternolan4107 yeah... I think part of it is he's just scared of everything. Now, I will grant he was off a Gulf of Mexico oil well a week when it blew up. Then a couple of days before going to a new one, it blew up. He got out of that business. I just figured he needed to worry about something else. The last eruption of Yellowstone ash made it here, barely. Cascadia isn't going to directly affect us. He's just going to horriblize anything, I figured it was best he worry about things he can't control and he'll be too old to help... he just turned 70. Oh, and that's how we met, he kept telling me he was older than various friends, who I knew were younger than I was. I kept telling him he was younger than me. I knew at the time I looked younger than several of those friends, but I am almost exactly 18 months older.
@roxyiconoclast there is a fault in my city. It isn't very active... I mean, it is Texas and nobody is fracking in this part of the state. Still, it is a fault, so, it needs to be considered. I have learned there are GPS markers around town, one in the parking lot of the apartment complex my client lived in when I was doing home health until 2013.
Our rural community in Northern California has formed a CERT team. We have immediate neighborhood clusters, to make sure somebody from that area knows all the neighbors. We have regular meetings with the fire safety board and are getting supplies together for a major natural disaster. We're not quite there, and all the federal cuts are making it harder to work on individual projects. But when it comes down to it, I know we'll have a few trained and prepared people around who care about their community.
To those of you saying that folks in the area of the disaster will be on their own you’re absolutely right. As someone who lives 2 hours east of where Hurricane Helene devastated the mountains of North Carolina, I saw this play out through folks I knew who lived there. There were no ways in or out for days except by helicopter. That area is roughly the size of Belgium and less populated because of the terrain. A lot of those folks also have lived in the mountains for generations and know how to “rough it.” FEMA is notoriously under equipped for large scale disasters like this - in the early hours and days afterwards. This area of the PNW is far more populated and larger than the area that was affected by Helene. And many folks in cities don’t have the knowledge or resources to survive and “rough it out.” The consequences of an earthquake like this would be absolutely catastrophic. Everyone needs a “go bag”, a paper map, and food and water to survive 72 hours. They also need to make sure they know community members around them to come together and help each other survive.
I grew up in the LA area, so the Northridge earthquake is still a strong memory for me. Now that I live in WA, I'm a bit concerned about how that disaster will play out. I have considered moving to a new region, but as you mentioned in this video, every region has something to worry about. If anything, my family has some semblance of a plan in case it happens, but I know we can do more.
Norghridge was just scary. Early morning, low frequency sound, no electricity fir a couple of days, made bbq in the yard because no electricity. But meat would not last without fridge working.
I don't live in the PNW, but I do live in Sonoma County and had to abruptly evacuate during the Tubbs Fire of 2017. It taught me (and my family) the valuable lessons of having a go bag ready, having essential documents scanned to a (secure) cloud file, and knowing where the safe place we would gather if such a fire were to happen again. TLDR; have a plan.
TLDR; is an Internet meme that means “Too Long, Didn’t Read” and is usually followed by a few words summarizing the longer text, in this case “have a plan”.
I live 100 meters from the Washington coast, but at an elevation of about 100 meters. I am currently building a house using the latest seismic engineering techniques and exceeding earthquake codes. Yet, with all of that, none of us will be completely safe in this location.. Fortunetly or kids in Seattle were all living in old highrises, but now are living in newer, safer buildings.
I appreciate this. I moved from Texas and know how to survive extreme weather catastrophes there but still learning about the PNW. I know some people may see this as fear-mongering, but I see it as something to talk to elected officials about, make sure I understand the full picture so I’m an informed voter, and know how to prepare for my family and community. I guess surviving multiple tornadoes and other extreme weather events made me more thoughtful.
PNW person here. My family and neighbors have established emergency plans and supplies sufficient for 3 months, including electricity. It took quite a bit of planning, but we all feel more at ease in the event of any disaster. It may be rough, but we'll support each other.
My son works right next door to the fuel storage in Portland - we live directly North beyond the hills about 5 miles as the crow flies. So we talked about needing a gas mask, fire blanket, water and an evacuation route that isn't through the cloud of chemicals. Its no joke there are a lot of people working in the area of the fuel tanks that have no idea what could happen. And Portland will not take action to safeguard the fuel supply - business as usual here. Ugh !! But super useful information that may save my son if he has to evacuate !!! Thanks !
If you have enough cash, you could purchase two or three months' worth of medications and rotate in the oldest when the newest arrives on your regular insurance prescriptions. No, insurance won't buy you the extra supply, but it's called "self-insurance." Kind of like having three months of emergency food supplies and rotating the oldest into use and the newest in the back.
No one thinks of the overlay of disasters happening at the same time. I.E 5 to 6 minutes into the earthquake the tsunami is already coming which leave less time to get to safety. Coupled with power outages and fires and broken roads and buildings leave very little openings to get to safety fast. Those that are trapped or pinned, their survival drops because not many emergency services can get to them in time. So be prepared have a go bag, have evacuation points to meet at if traveling with family or friends and be sure to pay attention to your surroundings. Help don't hinder.
I live on the nootka fissure i will get a birdseye view of the rupture of Cascadia if I'm not just instantly crushed by my house. Its incredibly shocking to me having lived on the coast my entire life how ignorant so many that live here are to the danger of a mega quake, I've had arguments with my neighbors who proclaim we don't get earthquakes here and it's all hyped up bs. Nevermind our local and regional governments not being prepared, a decent portion of the citizenry refuse to acknowledge the risk, nevermind prepare. I was laughed out of a local emergency meeting when i suggested that our village (nestled in a mountain Valley a couple of miles from the closest point of Cascadia to the shore) should prepared for not just 72hrs( the official recommendation) but prepare emergency supplies for over a month at least. Our schools our medical clinic and our village offices are a all built on fill. Our only road out it walled by tall granite cliffs, and not a single official or local leader had made any effort to address some of the very real threats to our community.... I am prepared but somehow i don't think it will make much difference, i can't feed house and tend to 2000 people. Our regional governments and emergency services will be overwhelmed if at all able to function after, and small communities like ours will be left for months without services of any kind. I suspect if any of us survive the immediate damage from the quake and tsunami that those that don't manage to crawl over 100km of mountain rubble to escape will be among the first cases of cannibalism after the big one. I might be better off if my house falls on me in the long run. That being said the power of the planet is truly awe inspiring and i wouldnt live anywhere else, this truly is one of the most beautiflu landscapes on earth.
It is indeed SO beautiful. Was there visiting my bro in Corvallis last week. We hiked old growth, visited Newport, went to the Japanese garden and Intl Rose garden, and i completely understand why my brother fell in love with that bewitching place! He is VERY AWARE of the mega quake threat, but has no idea how to be prepared for it. Rather overwhelming, isn't it?
@12:19 I was there at the Post 2018 Camp Fire relief area in the Walmart Parking Lot of Chico, California.. Lost everything. It was amazing, people from everywhere came to help. This is a great nation capable of great things.
You mean zero accountability and endless greed has left us completely unprepared for basically everything. Imagine that...
And there you have it . . . 100% accurate.
Couldn’t agree more… we have all the money in the world to bail out corporations and the rich, but none of our tax money seems to trickle down to the middle class and infrastructure.
It was very funny and sad to me when she said "There is still time to prepare, we could improve our infrastructure" and my mind just went, lmao. lol, lmao.
You nailed it. And Trump too busy fighting imaginary wars to be thinking about saving A PART OF THE USA. LOL INCOMPETENT PEOPEL FOUNDED AMERICA AND INCOMPETENT PEOPLE STILL RUN IT. and every American just accepts this fact and allows it to happen, stop electing bigots to office and you might get good results
The worse climate change is the slower governments will be able to respond, even if they aren’t trying to murder millions of their own citizens
"And were not prepared."
Honestly, how America is going, I don't think we're prepared for anything..
Never have been
No, not true... We're good (and prepared) at the National Debt... 😂
The way things are going, you will need to be prepared far sooner then you should have been. A few immigrants in your country will seem very trivial if and when disaster strikes. You will probably need them immigrants to help rebuild. Perhaps you should have spent your money preparing instead of building and arranging for mega prisons for all those immigrants you need to send somewhere. Perhaps the rich that are getting richer will help and chip in for rebuilding. A sort of trickle down effect. Don't worry! The well funded and well managed FEMA will be there to run the show. They may need to pull some of the national guards from the streets of LA to help. Rest assured that in all of the federal government institutions, only the best of the best problem solvers have been hired to run them.
@@GripmagicSpeak FOR YOURSELF!!
I will BE JUST FINE!
I don’t think the vast majority of Americans care.
I think a lot of us are guilty of “it won’t happen to me, it won’t happen to us” syndrome.
The United States needs to seriously consider earthquake safety, we are not even close to how prepared Japan was in 2011. It's so frustrating.
The US has to worry about gay and trans people! We can't worry about infrastructure and healthcare!
Oregon!? Ha, right, we're on on own here. If Portland gets hit with the big one there wouldn't be a way out of here. Maybe a route or two, but with all the substandard bridges and infrastructures everywhere ? Good luck. ODOT is announcing that they will be laying off up to 600 workers soon, possibly more. Yeah, this state is not prepared for a catastrophic event.
My family has maybe three days worth of "to go" survival items. That's pretty much all I can do due to money limitations. I think it's the same for most people in the state.
Geologists knew long before the 2011 earthquake (by finding sea sand in the strata of Fukushima's local mountains) how high to build the seawall or at least how high to build the backup cooling generators. And they still built them too low in elevation. Knowing and doing something are not the same thing. I live in Oregon and I have zero doubt we will do nothing about the location and build quality of at risk infrastructure. 3 years ago I bought firearms, ceramic water filters, long term calories in mylar bags. Last thing will be a tri fuel generator (gas, propane, natural gas) and a solar setup.
To be honest it needs to reconsider everything
If this happens anytime in the next few years, you'll have to secede from the US and get yourself annexed by Canada to get any actual help.
I took a survey class in college (UW-Seattle, almost 20 years ago) that was just presentations from various departments on campus. One of the speakers was working on a method of corroborating stories of indigenous peoples to 'verified' historical records. She mostly spoke of the Cascadia event and how explorers to the area spoke to tribal elders that said that as children, they witnessed the battle between the Thunderbird and the Great Whale that ravaged their lands and wiped out many of their neighbors. The fact that the Japanese (who kept meticulous records of Tsunamis) had a surprise one that coincided with the timeline of local accounts was really neat. It makes me wonder how many other indigenous stories can be corroborated with written records.
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The flood in the black sea 8000 years ago may through oral history have led to creation myths involving floods. Think Noahs ark.
Yes,but sadly racism, colonialism seems to discount said info now they are thankfully i waking up,just hope not to late,but....
Likely many. They know things we would do well to take seriously.
I would look up the Stephan Milo video on the oldest story.
I’m a geologist, and I live in the PNW. It’s true, we could have a 9.0 mega thrust quake tomorrow… however it just as easily might not happen for another 100 years, or 300. These things don’t happen at regular, predictable intervals, sometimes there are 150 years between quakes, sometimes it’s 700 years. The AVERAGE interval is 350 years, so by that measure we are “due for the big one” but realistically it COULD be another 2,3,even 400 years. Preparing for something that statistically may very well NOT happen in your lifetime is pretty easy. It’s called basic disaster preparedness, the sort of thing EVERYONE should do. I personally am far more likely to fall victim to flash floods or wildfires than “the big one”.
I read that the average period is 580 years .....
The individual shouldn’t spend their days over preparing, I agree, but the infrastructure of our region is not prepared. It will be obliterated, no hyperbole. Japan was far and away more prepared than we are and look what happened to them. Basic disaster preparedness is underestimating the destruction that will occur.
@@Thrasher987 I fully agree the magnitude will be huge. What is poor is saying to people that "this event is due" or "this event is overdue" as the PBS video implies We are only just over half way through the average return period of 580 years. It is just as likely to be 580+200 years as 580=200 years. The probability theory behind these statements is poorly understood.
@@tftftf100% agreed. That is why I do not believe that we as individuals should waste our time and energy preparing for it outside of your standard disaster prep. But I strongly believe that government needs to prepare for it NOW because government is slow, corrupt, and inefficient. If they started yesterday, they’d still probably be late, even if the quake doesn’t hit ‘till 2075 lol
@@Thrasher987Japan gets major earthquakes every couple of decades, they SHOULD be more prepared than the PNW which gets a major earthquake oh every 3 or 4 centuries. How exactly should governments prepare for an earthquake that comes every three or 400 years? I mean, it’s probably a good idea to design seismically hardened infrastructure, then again the building or bridge you build today very well could serve its functional lifetime and become obsolete without ever experiencing an earthquake. Does it make sense to require owners of 100 year-old commercial buildings that are nearing the end of their lifespan, to seismically retrofit their buildings? Probably not. Portland, Oregon for a while was considering spending nearly $1 billion to tunnel an earthquake proof, waterline under the Willamette river. A waterline with an estimated 75 year lifespan that would have sat unused, requiring constant maintenance “just in case”. To their credit they came to their senses. I don’t know, it’s an interesting question. What is the proper level of municipal preparedness for an earthquake that comes along every few hundred years?
As a former Portlander, without having watched the video yet, I suspect this is going to be about how we cleverly built all our oil and gas infrastructure right on top of liquefaction zones.
Edit: Called it! Haha cool.
And, unlike the Sendai Airport in Japan, we know and do nothing. They were flying relief flights two days after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in and out of Sendai because they had hardened the runways in preparation. It’s not like we don’t know.
@@awesomerpowerJapan sees hundreds of earthquakes in a very short time and it's a small country. It's absurd to expect the same level of preparation. But there are millions of houses in Japan that don't even meet basic earthquake standards from 1981.
@mediocreman2 I am familiar with both Japan and the PNW. At every level, Japan has better and more Earthquake resistant buildings.
First of all, it's very common for Japanese people to tear down their old homes and build new ones. Within neighbourhoods that aren't new, I see a lot more new homes in Japan compared to the PNW even in rural parts.
Second, it's not uncommon for traditional houses to install seismic upgrades. And traditional Japanese houses are already much safer in earthquakes compared to many western house designs.
Lastly, there was barely any thought of earthquake preparedness only a handful of decades ago in the PNW. I know lots of people that went to schools made of brick. Meanwhile Japanese culture and tradition has been constantly shaped and informed by the presence of earthquakes.
While sure, the earthquake readiness of Japan may not be perfect, I don't think the two regions are even comparable.
Portland can’t even prepare for the snow that completely shuts down the city for 2 days to a week most winters 😑
I guess the real issue here is that in order to solve this oil storage problem the declining oil industry has to be cajoled into investing into new storage.
I'm keeping myself safe by living in the Midwest
(Tornado Sirens in the background)
faschos aren't so much safer in the long term.
New Madrid Fault is overdue for a large quake. Really, nowhere is safe from natural disasters.
@@Rochellesettle Most of Europe is pretty safe, at least until climate change makes us have more extreme storms. In Ukraine our worst natural disasters are thunderstorms and blizzards. They kill a few people per year and cause a few blackouts. Obviously we have other dangers, but they're entirely unnatural.
My mic at my PC picks up the tornado sirens and always freaks out online friends
The Midwest is safe from tornadoes, but not religious zealots in public office.
Not Pacific Northwest but Japan here. Knowing you neighbors is important indeed. Rescue might not be coming for a while. We have ready bags, my daughter has drills in school, we have community gathering with firefighters from time to time.
If there is something sure, for the past 30 years devastating earthquakes we had, they happened mostly where it was the least expected.
Ive watch an incredible documentary about how Japan is prepared for almost any potential disaster. Japan is located in a place on earth where it's exposed to every potential catastrophy. I was impress about how your Governement is actualy investing in the safety of the Japanese citizen. Meanwhile, The U.S citizen strongly believe in a false god and governed by the orange clown that dont give a single f*ck about the U.S citizen.
We have watched the various earthquakes, tsunami and eruptions that Japan has endured... You are so far ahead of us... We are so uneducated....
@@santaclaws50I wouldn’t say uneducated. Japan has frequent earthquakes and kinda constantly in our minds. Still, many people lose their life when a big one happens. No fear mongering but just be aware and be ready.
Given how long we have known about this, it is truly disheartening to see how little has been done to prepare for this. For one, those tanks should have been moved ages ago--we should be electrifying more so we don't need those tanks!
Our PNW multi-suburb area had a community meeting about earthquake preparedness. It was well attended and one of the strongest sentiments from the crowd was wanting to understand how the firefighters and police were planning to rescue the citizens. One of the officials said “Honestly we won’t be around bc we’ll be saving our own families.” The crowd was angry with this answer. Several people from the wealthiest areas expressed the belief that their neighborhood should have service before other neighborhoods with the unsaid but clear “bc you know…we’re the wealthy people.” I happen to know a handful of people who are involved in helping to prepare with education, ham radio drills, water storage backup, etc but it isn’t the norm. We’ve attended the meetings for these groups and it’s populated with senior citizens looking for something to do, which is wonderful, but we were the only younger people. My husband and I have tried talking to people in our life like other parents at play dates and the earthquake subject isn’t well received. People change the subject! Or they behave as though they have it all under control when it’s obvious they don’t. Our family has been educating ourselves and we know we’re not ready. One mom told us her family was fine bc she has a huge bag of rice in the pantry. 😔So in summary…It seems our government isn’t able to reach its people, and the people don’t want to be reached.
This is the kind of invaluable educational content is why we need PBS cuts to stop.
Everyone loves PBS/NPR, as long as they’re not obviously biased. No one could beat Nina Totenberg’s analysis of legal issues of the day, she was brilliant. And you could not detect her personal political affiliation. I used to love listening to PBS/NPR, but when I see that I’m not getting objective information, I’m not willing for self-indulgent journalism to be paid for with tax dollars. Public funding comes with a responsibility to serve everyone, not just your own “club.” Unfortunately, it seems the left has lost the capacity to be objective. Hence, I support defunding despite countless hours of watching and listening over many years.
@@user-ht6bt4mt7that’s an interesting point. If the information is correct whether not I agree, I would still support it.
@@caity2460 Bias is bias. Taxpayers deserve objectivity. Bias leads inevitably to biased selection of “facts.” When you see it you can’t unsee it. When people are so convinced they’re correct, they don’t give contradictory facts the time of day.
@@user-ht6bt4mt7true. It’s unfortunate that it’s come to defunding instead of reforming. Edit: when I research a topic or event I read all news outlets versions to get the big picture, so that must be why the choices of one media outlet doesn’t bother me.
@@user-ht6bt4mt7
It is not the fault of public broadcasting that the facts lean left. There is SO MUCH misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, and out-and-out LIES coming from the executive branch and all the way down to podcasters running block for those lies, it is staggering.
Facts are facts. Facts aren't biased. Science should be followed. Not just doing whatever the corporate sugar daddies tell you to do.
Community is King in a Crisis!! Lived through many hurricanes and sharing supplies with neighbors was always easy because they were already sharing with you... Lived under Marshal Law without electricity for 3 weeks for one of them and everyone was wonderful, loving and caring... that's what got us all through!!
You are so right! All these doomscrollers calling each other fool and trying to out-cynic and smug-blame the other one...but when the SHTF the neighbors you never really noticed or thought about turn out to be the most helpful people, and you might even catch a little of that "love your neighbor as yourself" (and vice-versa). Thing is, just like the current socio-political situation, this Cascadia event is going to be of such a scale and last so long, that the whole fabric of how to live and what works for the individuals and the government, the 'hood, the society is going to have to evolve into something we haven't really known before.
Classes I've attended, study I've done, tells me here in Rogue Valley we''re likely to be on our own for 3-5 months before serious aid of scale from outside can come in. FEMA plans (if FEMA even survives Trump & Noem) call for Bend to be the staging area for relief; all infrastructure (roads, bridges, dams, fuel and power grids, hospitals, grocery and other stores) west of the Cascades is likely to suffer catastrophic damage in the projected 8.5 - 9+ Richter scale shown in the geologic records.
Depending on where it occurs, the 100 foot tsunami (yes, that is a realistic possibility) could devastate the coast anywhere from the Cal-Or border to Puget Sound, back water up the Columbia River, not to mention bounce back and forth in the Pacific basin a few times. Alaska, NE Russia, Korea & Japan share the fun.
So a couple long seasons of no cars; no groceries; no Amazon; no city sewer & water; no electricity; no internet/media; no fire fighting in the forests or the towns; animals domestic and wild running loose; and freaked, injured, sick and traumatized people doing their best, and their worst. All we're really gonna have is each other.
@@feedigli Thanks! Just to assure you I did see several "Domesday Prepper" episodes years ago where people in the Oregon area were stocking supplies, specifically to share with their neighbors in case of a crisis. Hopefully we never will see it happen.
What I heard in this video is that when this disaster strikes don't count on the government coming to the rescue. Many areas will be inaccessible, so folks in some neighborhoods will have no one but each other to turn to for help.
Especially, with the WH Admin we have atm
Also assume that the Cascadia quake will happen while another region of the country is reeling from a different major disaster, whether a wildfire, hurricane, or something like the East Palestine OH chemical spill, which will limit any aid resources available. Furthermore, assume that the national media will move on to the next disaster within a couple of months.
229,769 NON-VOTERS handed Trump the presidency. Every Supreme Court decision and policy fight we’re battling today stems from the moment 229,769 Americans chose to stay home instead of voting in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The responsibility lies with those apathetic non-voters who failed to protect our country. Quit blaming MAGA die-hards who will never budge; aim your energy where it matters - turn those 229,769 stay-at-home neighbors into ballots in the next election.
So, it's like every other natural disaster, then?
This is murica now. Our neighbors are our enemies now. Says every rethuglican and demorat corporate sock puppets. Mission accomplished
Three to six minutes that´s insane. I lived in Portland during the Scotts Mills quake. It was a 5.6 and lasted 45 seconds that seemed like forever.
I lived in Oregon city at the time and that quake scared the daylights out of me! Bounced my 9 year old son out of his bed.
I live in Portland, and I live in fear about this stuff to a certain extent. Especially because I’m physically disabled. Ty for the story, and thinking of us up here in beautiful Cascadia
Don't live in fear about it. If you look at the video and the numbers they said, it's also likely that this won't happen (earthquakes will happen, but they're taking about the worst possible outcome.) I've lived though 2 major earthquakes. Have a solid disaster kit.
All this 'may', 'might', 'could happen', etc. Such fear-mongering. If you are not okay with the risks, just sell and move away.
All that stuff the vid says about neighbours helping each other ... as a disabled person, expect that to pan out about how it did for people wearing face masks to avoid infecting and killing vulnerable people during the pandemic.
Speaking as another disabled person, although thankfully living with family that I know do value my life, I would encourage you to think about moving somewhere that you don't have to worry about earthquake, tsunami, wildfire, and toxic gas spills. Your life is precious, even if the people around you don't see it that way. You are worth saving.
Some strange near-hostility happening here. I’m a paralyzed double amputee who can’t transfer and requires a power chair. As far as the 1st commenter: I don’t live in terror every day, but it’s certainly on my radar. 2nd person: why do you assume everyone owns a house or can afford to just pick up and move?
Why wouldn't you move? There are less expensive places to live that do not have this risk.
I live in the PNW and I've just accepted that if I die, then I die.
Same. the gorgeous view of Mt. Tahoma and not having to worry about yearly tornado seasons make it worth it lol
✌️👍👍 agreed
This is not fearmongering , it’s just how the earth works. Just be prepared as much as you can. That’s all. I experienced a serious wildfire last week in Greece. 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan. Tsunami alert in Kodiak Island. I live in AK where the earthquakes happen pretty often. So no need to fear. Understand them and be prepared. You can see all of that in my shorts by the way. I really appreciate PBS!
Just check out the username of that guy.
just because you didn't experience death and severe loss, doesn't mean that's not a bigger and bigger risk. Fear is a rational response. So is infastructure upgrades which requires policy change and budget support.... it's not just a personal issue
@@WeAreGonnaGetThruThis you just said the same thing he did. 🤦🤦♂🤦♀🤣🤣🤣
But…American exceptionalism will stop it right 😅
@@WeAreGonnaGetThruThisI agree with what you are saying. Personal and community preparedness are also crucial especially after a disaster.
I'm from WA. We learned about how serious the "big one" will be in the 90s at school. They have known how serious the situation is for decades and have refused to add any preparatory infrastructure. Seattle is going to sink. I'm surprised some buildings haven't. The state has left the responsibility to maintain the old Seattle underground to the building owners- who have continously ignored it. It is already unstable without an earthquake in the mix. But, honestly, it feels like an illustration of the US in a nutshell
They were telling us in the 1960s in my elementary school that we were waiting for a big one on the west coast. They told us then it would likely happen within the next 20 years. They were probably referring to the San Andreas potential but it's interesting to me "the big one" label gets hung on different areas over time.
I believe Seattle is in a worse spot than Portland.
I live on the east side of Washington State. We would probably feel shaking here but that’s about it. I do have some fear for family on the west side. Mt Rainier, Saint Helens and Mt Adam are a concern for the whole state if they were to erupt.
JEWrassic Liars channel Seattle 6/11/26
Why, my daughters live in Renton, near lake Washington. They are flight attendants. Hopefully they will be out of town 😢. I heard west of the interstate 5 is safer than east. @bobsacamano7653
I got another 20 years maybe left on this planet and what it was like through the 60's, 70's and 80's is nothing like what it is today. I mean there's no intimate relationship with your neighbors for the most part, some are very isolated, some even hostile and I got one neighbor who's stolen from me. Back in the day we'd have community parties, baseball games, birthday parties in the park with neighbors enjoying in the festivities, good luck relying on others for your survival.
Most people hire out for all their home maintenance & never get their hands dirty; this earthquake will be a great equalizer. The average homeowner can't even shut off their gas line.
Thanks for not keeping that around for the next generation. Nice job Boomers!
And nuclear families.
@@misterfunnybones Think of all the goods and services you are using that you have no skills for. There are far more useful skills than just being able to do maintenance. Your thinking is very narrow.
@@hia5235 it's social media , CPU's, cell phones that changed society, not boomers..
As an elderly person I realize that personal preparedness only goes so far. If help does not arrive within a week or maybe 2, the death toll is increased exponentially.
That's true. There's a statistic that all major cities in America have only enough food on hand in stores to feed the population for 3 days, with extreme rationing. Yet we've seen how people make frantic runs and even riots for non-necessities, like toilet paper. This is why families should have enough food and water to last 2 weeks, and a way to filter water.
Portlander here. We all talk about earthquake preparedness kits, but most people I know don't have one (I do). This was really interesting to watch, as an electrical engineer thinking about working in power next now that Intel's collapsing, maybe I'll look into those jobs here and see if I can work on building infrastructure to handle the big quake. I was just going to move abroad, but it's interesting to be reminded of the need here.
I grew up and worked on the Washington coast. One of my final projects was helping install tsunami warning sirens in the town where I worked and lived. I retired and moved away from the beautiful coast and now just worry about wildland wildfires.
the worst part is that we COULD have the infrastructure to survive and even thrive through this, but because of corporate greed and the hoarded wealth of the 1% here we are- they can flee in their private jets to their secure bunkers somewhere far away while the commonfolk bear the consequences of their actions
Take care of yourself, don't live on the backs of others.
@@ohsweetmystery you mean like the corporate billionaires that don't contribute anything to the economy?
It is entirely likely that the runways will be destroyed and the jets will not be going anywhere. Look at the pictures from the Alaska quake from the 1960s.
It takes cooperation to accomplish large tasks. This "every man for himself" attitude is dooming us. I used to think the same way as you. I grew up though. Maybe you should try it.
The stupid people usually suffer the most and blame it on others .
I live in PNW and sold my old unreinforced masonry building and bought a newly constructed home further out from the subduction zone.
I’m reminded of when I was reviewing for my civil engineering license back in 1994. At the time we used the Uniform Building Code. There was a graphic showing west coast seismic risk zones along California. And all the lines turned to zero at the Oregon-California border and stayed zero all the way to Canada. So yes, most structures in OR and WA weren’t built to withstand shaking.
I live in Portland. Here’s what I’ve done:
1. Solar panels with battery backup
2. An EV with a charger in the garage.
3. Retrofitted my basement to prevent the house from shifting off the foundation.
4. Have seeds in long term storage for growing crops.
5. Have emergency food kits for 3 months
6. Have weapons
7. Camping gear
Things left to do:
1. Build an in ground cistern.
I’m in the Mojave Desert and I’ve done these things too
An ev is the dumbest vehicle to be relying on after a quake. . .
@@tconbo4514now that I think about it, you may be right. I need an EV bike. Or maybe an EV four wheeler of some kind.
@@Encephalitisify earthquake, hurricane, tornado, tsunami, flood, wind, snow, thunderstorm - 1st thing out is electricity. You're right about it being better to have a bike or an atv tho. Just not an electric one. . .
Sounds like you're fairly well prepared. Solar panels will charge the car - maybe not really fast, but better than nothing. Probably better to get the cistern dug now, unless you know the water table is high under your property; you're not going to want to be crawling down a 50 or 100 foot hole digging to get water.
I grew up in Everett wa and this has always been a concern. Crazy to think all the million bridges would be compromised and people wouldn't be able to leave
It will be like the purge mass violence especially in the cities
I live East of Everett by quite a ways. We would rather keep the voters bottled up in the Seattle/Everett/Olympia/Tacoma area. Let them stay in the “paradise” they created
They won't all collapse. Most bridges on interstate highways and many on major state highways have been seismically retrofitted to survive a cascadia earthquake.
@@consco3667 That doesn't even make sense in this context. You are whats wrong in this country.
@Groundskeep》What does 'wa' mean?
l,m in the UK.
I have researched quite deeply on this and cannot find any meaningful preparations about food supplies, because our main source of food supplies currently, is the 5 Freeway.
For real. It's a problem.
Its hard to find enough helicopters to transport large quantities of food after a big one.
There are multiple ways of researching food supplies, most cites covering emergency preparedness have ample information as to what and how to go about it.
there's a video that OPB put out a number of years ago, "Unprepared." One of the best hours of video you can watch (it's on RUclips). Best to think in terms of three months of food rather than 3 days; water purification supplies; and possibly a lithium battery power station and some good solar panels.
The state of Oregon has been beefing up US 97 through Oregon as the "replacement" highway for north-south freight traffic when I-5 fails (still a lot of bridges built with pre-stressed concrete girders that will fail). It's likely that every highway from the valley to Central Oregon will have at least one bridge that fails. And, as always, the nation's news focus will be on Seattle, because how interesting is a bridge you can't see at the bottom of the river, compared to the Space Needle lying on its side? Our only hope is that the fires in the West Hills of Portland get some attention, along with all the pollution floating downriver to the ocean from the oil and chemical spills.
I’ll do anything to survive the apocalypse. As long as I don’t have to talk to my neighbors.
@@borzoi2607 I think it's called a joke.
@borzoi2607 lol huge woosh
@@borzoi2607Do you know what "humor" is? I def don't want to "survive" around you. 😂
@@vipermad358 - yeah, no one wants to be around people who can't take a joke, for sure.
😅😅😅😅😅
Wa resident here; I can't imagine preparing for this, the worst natural disaster. Prepping to live off the land for 3-6 months in the event that you don't die or so severely injured that you need emergency help is all one can do. I have some food stores, rocket stove and water purifier but I don't imagine that will keep me alive in this event.
Getting prepared sounds daunting but doable if you want it. Make a list and buy one thing every time you go shopping. Eventually you’ll have food, fuel, water, etc. Just get started, and for a little extra money today, any disaster that comes your way will be more survivable.
I've turned my little van into a travel camper with everything I need. Tested one winter in Arizona, and two summers in Oregon and it worked out good. I keep it ready at all times. It's my goto bag for sleeping, resting, eating writing, and editing video on my laptop.
When I was in school back in the 1900s, we were taught this earthquake happens every 1000 years and that it would happen within the next 100 years. Some time ago, they updated it to be within the next 50 years.
I love how you used '1900s' makes me feel so antiquated lol
@@Gripmagic lol exactly
fusion has been ten hears away for a hundred years
Not hard to understand why
New info narrowed the expected date. Ignore it to your peril. I certainly hope the quake does little damage, but if I lived near a fuel depot, I would seriously consider moving.
Here's hoping people take earthquake and emergency prep seriously. The devastation will be enormously widespread, and FEMA won't be around to help. Even when it was at full capacity to help, it never would have been nearly enough.
Those who prepare will be the ones surviving.
Climate change is so bad, we need to do something about it, these earthquakes are going to be crazy!!
"Here's hoping people take earthquake and emergency prep seriously." You're already wrong 💀 - no one will don't worry
The real prep work that needed to be done was with infrastructure, decades ago.
@@ahealthkit2745 the real prep work was done by all of the intelligent people, not living in these cesspools. 💯💯🤣🤣🤣
its simple....do not live there. problem solved. Some parts of the earth are just not good places for permanent modern human civilization.
I live in Japan. I’ve seen the Fukushima disaster. I live south of the zone and I felt the aftershocks hundreds of miles south. So, Northwest US, good luck.😢
I think Japan would be here to help with search and rescue for America. Japan got experience after the 2011 earthquake.
Not only the CSZ, but the shallow crustal faults in the Puget Sound are also a major risk for that region.
A 7.0 on the Seattle Fault would produce more shaking in the Puget Sound than a 9.0 on the CSZ. Given that both faults are potentially due for a large rupture, this dramatically increases the risk for the region
I will always remember how when the sunset came on the day after the 2011 Japanese Tsunami, the searchers were called home from the wreckage strewn coastal flats with a song played on loudspeakers in the hills. The song was "Yesterday" by the Beatles. It tore the heart from me to see. I don't want that here.
Woah, that is macabre.
@@aldermediaproductions695 One of those moments.
Hi, thank you for your great show! I live in Portland, Or. We checked our gas line to be sure there’s a manual shut off, we strapped our basement to the foundation and put 8 inch screws through beams-and joists. And hoard water. The goals are to safely get out of the house before it collapses and prevent a gas leak fire.
It is insane how uncommon seismic gas shutoffs are around here. It literally prevents your house from exploding in an earthquake but almost nobody has them.
12:00 is a refreshing change. You can't avoid all these risks, but you can build a strong community to withstand and recover from them. Look for the helpers.
Be a helper! 😎✌️
Mr. Rogers!
We had our house in Portland, Oregon seismically retrofitted after learning about the Great Cascadia quake. This could give us a fighting chance of surviving the initial shocks and evacuating the region.
We live in Milwaukie and are seriously considering doing the same for our home. Would you recommend the company you worked with? And how costly were your upgrades?
@@racaulk it cost around 5k for us in 2016.
What company did you use to do the retrofitting?
And when your neighbors and marauders see you are doing well, what do you think is going to happen? Better have a safe basement environment to hide in.
@@Galen.GIf they are under rubble I am sure it wouldn't be an issue. Or you can not bother at all and you can be under rubble too.
Thanks!
6-12 months no power?....As a homebody that is a nightmare :( Hopefully this doesn't happen anytime soon & when it does....I hope we are somewhat prepared by then.
Watching from Alaska. To date, Alaska is home to the second largest quake in modern history (9.2). In 2018, a 7.1 quake hit 30 miles from our house. That was scary!
I grew up in earthquake country as well....Southern California.
you also get in on that active volcano action. ❤
I was 13 years old just north of Anchorage for the Good Friday, March 27, 1964, shaker. It shook for a long time. Mountain tops looked like waves ...Drivers on the road thought maybe Russia had attacked with bombs as their cars bounced. The Wikipedia says "...magnitude 9.2-9.3 megathrust earthquake remains the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America, and the second most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the world since modern seismography began in 1900."
@@Rj-hsu-1exactly.
I wasn’t born yet but my parents lived in Seattle at the time and they felt it too!
My partner and I are in the Puget Sound region and recently signed up for our city’s community emergency response training- hope we never have to use it, and praying we can gather the political will to mobilize for infrastructure and systems improvement before this happens!!
Have Bob add another $25 Trillion in tax increases…
@@consco3667 Ugh... Side show bob sucks!
I live up in northern Idaho. While not in the immediate danger zone, we're the refugee zone. We're _hoping_ that when we can finally have a house built, part of the shop (ICF build) will have extra hookups for commercial kitchen equipment and laundry. We'd like to add a few RV pads to rent over the summer for side income and add solar electric and hot water systems.
We want the property to be ready if Cascadia rips. Property features that will help the property generate an income will be able to be put into action helping provide food, shelter, and basic sanitation when the fault lets go and our neighbors to the west need our help.
❤❤❤
Actually Idaho will shake alot
You'll want a really big vegetable garden, and a basement full of freeze dried and vacuum stored food ready to feed the five thousand. People eat more when they're shocked and scared.
Also a really good toilet system and water supply, if you're not on town services.
Thank you for being a good neighbour.
@@johntitorii6676 oh yeah. but we won't experience anywhere near the level of devastation that the coast will.
Natural disaster resistance is part of our planned build. We're looking at ICF (insulated concrete form) with appropriate levels of reinforcement. We want a "green" house, but ICF will give us something that can resist both earthquakes, and more importantly, wild fire.
@@tealkerberus748 lol, our plans are well above what we can afford, but one of the things we want is a geothermal greenhouse. There's a gent out of Oklahoma or Nebraska that has pioneered a design where he's harvesting oranges in January.
Also planned is a substantial root cellar.
I don't know yet if we can do it, but we're looking at a large septic system for the house and shop. The shop will have living quarters in it as well. The RV hookups will be on their own septic if we're allowed to install two systems.
I lived in Oregon over 50 years, and the central coast for 15. I was a trainer for the local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) where I trained volunteers and neighborhood groups on topics like preparedness, emergency first aid and triage, search and rescue, even morgue protocols for isolated communities. Cascadia is a survivable event, but the recovery would take months or years. I finally decided, after all I knew and all the preparation that had been done, I really didn't want to be there when it happened. So I moved to Tornado Alley where it is much safer!
I live near Seattle. This quake could also trigger an eruption of Mt. Rainier, which is a much larger volcano than Mt. St. Helens, which erupted in 1980 causing massive devastation in the area and beyond. The native Americans in the area have a saying, "Little Sister whispers, Big Brother roars." Mt St. Helens is "Little Sister". Guess who "Big Brother" is...
It probably wouldn't cause an eruption, at least not immediately, but could definitely shake loose some of the rotten rock (it's a volcanic thing) and ice and cause a fast-moving lahar. Orting, the Port of Tacoma, and other communities are built on old lahars.
In metro Vancouver they barely have earthquake indicators, meanwhile they are happy to blow $600m + on a Soccer event next year!
I know MANY who are surprised Canada even gets earthquakes 😮
The earthquake alert text going out 30 minutes and 2 hours after the 4.2 we had recently was absolutely wild. Does it really take 30-120minutes to decide if the thing making all the windows shudder at the same time is an earthquake?? If there's a tsunami, we're all going to be notified underwater 🙃
Right!? Priorities are way off on both sides of the boarder. What a day it will be when millions of us die and suffer, but we can host The World Cup. I hope I am not jinxing us by saying this, but wouldn't it be ironic for Cascadia to slip during The World Cup events?
@@alexien2716good thing phones are waterproof these days 😊
We have learned that ostriches don’t actually hide their heads in the sand.
We’ve always known that people do.
Remember those videos of people walking along the beach after the sea receded during the Boxing Dat tsunami? No opportunity for them to learn from their mistakes.
I hate all the solutions required are ifs and companies to actually wanna fix it. We saw during the bp oil spill how companies don't care and won't invest in maintenance. Sadly a lot of people are going to suffer cus of corporate greed. Plus all this deregulation surely will help this situation.
Greed is the problem
We need to pass a law to require safer fuel storage practices.
@@darlingcorinne the Portland City Council passed an ordinance about a decade ago, outlawing new energy (fuel) infrastructure in Portland because of global warming. So, unless some radically different people get elected, a new law is not going to happen.
I live in Ocean Shores, a town on Grays Harbor in Washington. A teacher in central Washington introduced a new scenario that puts our town 30ft down during a full-rip Cascadia earthquake. Bug-out bags and elevated towers aren't gonna fix it. There will be no Ocean Shores because, according to this Teacher, it'll be 50ft west and 30ft lower. the only occupants left will be clams and crabs. When the tsunami gets done, there won't even be road to escape on and the single road out will be fill of parked cars, watching people exchange insurance cards at the shape corner right outside of the city.
The hospital in Aberdeen was relocated up a hill so it may survive subsidence and the tsunami.
Scenario sounds about right. You could move to Oklahoma or Missouri; houses are cheap, and all they worry about is tornados, civil strife, flooding, losing AC in the humid summer heat or the furnace in the 20 below winter. It all depends what kind of troubles you want in life; no place is immune, and some are nicer now than others.
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What I think is really neat is how the geologic record shows that since the southern end of Cascadia meets the northern end of San Andreas, every time the whole length of Cascadia has let go it's caused major quakes along San Andreas. But don't worry, only Geology lecturers ever talk about it.
I mean...isn't SanFran our most earthquake-resistantly built city? Don't get me wrong, I literally am avoiding any travel to Cascadia to not get swept up in the megaquake, but other than maybe some less extreme parts of the tsunami, the Bay Area should probably escape any damage. I'm picturing something like NYC's Hurricane Sandy, as compared to Portland and SeaTac's Double Katrina with Sauce
@@Copyright_Infringement Chances are the whole thing won't let go, so the Bay Area could just have to deal with a tsunami but the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the San Andreas Fault and the Mendocino Transform all meet at the Mendocino Triple Junction, where the North American, Pacific and Juan de Fuca plates all meet, all moving in different directions relative to each other. If that point becomes destabilized (and Cascadia is the likely candidate), everything moves. So it's possible for everyone from Vancouver to Cabo San Lucas to have a seismically really bad day. I'm not saying that will happen any time soon, but the geologic record shows us it has happened more than once already.
@@Copyright_Infringement yes the Bay Area hopefully avoids damage, only SF and the coast is exposed, and we're far south of Seattle, should be able to absorb a smaller earthquake
@@danielzhang1916San Francisco has little exposure to tsunami from Cascadia. It’s far to the the east of the epicenter as well as being far south, and the Golden Gate is so narrow not much of a tsunami can enter.
The coast starting a hundred miles or so north of San Francisco is gonna get slammed.
The big tsunami threat to San Francisco down to San Diego that we know of is a potential flank collapse of one of the Hawaiian volcanoes. That would send an immense wall of water toward the West Coast.
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I live in Oregon just barely east of the mountains. I am most concerned with water availability. I am in the process of setting up a rain catchment system to begin a permaculture process on 10 acres. Thank you for your programs on this, Maya.
If you're just outside the disaster zone, then you're in the refugee zone. You'll need a big vegetable garden and enough freeze-dried food vacuum-stored in your basement to feed hundreds of people. Also look at your sanitation, because those people are going to need toilets and access to showers and laundry facilities.
It won't really be a lot of refugees, because most people in the disaster zone are going to die. But for everyone who does manage to crawl out, you need to be ready to help them. How long it takes for government and NGOs to move people further away so you're not left trying to support hundreds of people long-term really depends on the government of the day.
I hope you're not in a blue county, or you just outed yourself to the government.
Having rain catchment is important. Salem will only allow a limited amount which I think should change. In fact I believe everyone in Oregon that owns property should have a rain catchment system in place.
@@AtarahDerek That's the thing about MAGA; I never feel any love coming from them, it's all grievance, all the time.
@@feedigliTry being in a disaster zone sometime. The relief workers are the neighbors in the red hats, while the looters are the ones claiming that voting for anyone other than a Democrat should be a capital offense.
I lived in Portland from 2005>2011. I returned to Los Angeles after 5 years for a few reasons. One of them was this impending quake, which virtually No ONE talked about, or was aware of. Then it hits, the Pac NW will be isolated for weeks, at least half the buildings and bridges will collapse. It'll be horrible.
Considering the poor quality of construction and materials in US infrastructure and housing I think you're being very optimistic with your predictions.
I grew up in Snohomish county in WA in the 80s and 90s. As long as I can remember, I knew about “The Big One.” I still live along the Pacific Coast and every moderate shake or bump, I wait and wonder if it’s “The Big One.”
Thank you for this report! I was surprised to hear that the West Coast could experience a blackout for so long after the earthquake.
Im taking steps to get my family’s go-bags ready.
It could be worse if it happens in the next 3 years. Pray someone logical and intelligent is in charge when it does
Sit down. You're drunk.
I was thinking the same thing ,.. Girl same 😢
@@gr8fulNanna Literally has nothing to do with the video.
@@scottdennis8287 No one asked you.
I disagree ..It Has everything to do with the Amout of true fukery that will happen if the Orange Taco is in Power.... Respectfully I agree with her..our leaders are sHit atm@@scottdennis8287
I love the ending of the video. I do believe there are a lot more pro-social behaviors in a disaster.
Don't let all those zombie TV shows make you think people are selfish.
The more I learned about the truth of Hurricane Katrina response, the more I realized people are mostly good.
I don't want to stick around and find out.
True, but be prepared for those who don't share that ethos. Plenty of them around too.
@@newgoliard6059 And they have guns.
People are happy to share until the supply dwindles. Then desperation sets in.
I'm not in the pacific northwest, but I always travel with a kit. I'm a travel nurse and figure I could be in any situation that requires me to be able to live out of my vehicle or to provide first aid. I always have something on hand. Heck, I was in St. Louis during this last snow fall and my little military shovel allowed me to get out of my parking space to get to work.
Doing what you can, being prepared, helps you keep your head on right, paying attention to what matters in the moment.
What kind of kit? Did u put it together yourself? Would like to have one for our family in the PNW
@@WhiteleafYeosu One part is purchased. I got it off of amazon. Has 3 days of food and water, ability to start a fire, small first aid kit, and other survival equipment in it. The rest is an augmented first aid kit, I have my stethoscope, bp cuff, and a finger o2sat. Then I have a small shovel, knife, and hatchet. Two wool blankets and emergency triangles, and a window hammer/seatbelt cutter. I also have a couple of SAM splints, hand crank weather radio, and flashlights.
@@kellygwyn2721thank you! Impressive
Have you ever heard the native legend of Thunderbird and Whale? The gist is: don't build your settlement too close to the shore. If Thunderbird and Whale fight, it could be wiped out. Thunderbird is the earthquake, and Whale is the tsunami.
I have not. Would you mind sharing? Seems like a wonderful tale.
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@kirklanyoshinaga8953 legends, landmarks and lore has a great short explaing it.. I added the link in another comment in case yt removes it just search whale and Thunderbird
This, yellowstone and the sun exploding in 5 billion years were my worst fears when i was small. At least this one is realistic, though I'm not worried yet. Good video.
The presenter is an absolute knockout. What a beauty, so eloquent, so captivating. Great choice.
1:06 Hey I can see my house! Heh... uh...
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand it’s gone
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Dang, you born with those eyes or get surgery? If the later, gimme your doctor's name 😅
The indigenous people knew best: Live lightly on the land.
10,000 family years without grocery stores and toilet paper... now... what to eat today if the grocery storage and emergency go-bags were lost as a result of the disaster ...the bridges down ...no more power nor phone? ...stored gasoline degrading a lot during the first year ...People could chew on bushes and roots until they discovered ones that satisfied their hunger. Meanwhile, consuming enough calories to keep the strength up would be a challenge for most folks accustomed to eating labeled food from stores.
@@Rj-hsu-1The return is coming❤.
They were able to live lightly because they had small populations. Lower populations are inherently far more resilient to pretty much any change, these days even the slightest disruption to modern technology or global supply chains can be catastrophic.
@@_Channel1_ I feel like adding a chorus of "...scoobee-du-wah.." to that. Maybe related to memories of being a younger child on a homestead in Alaska before statehood, sitting warm by the wood stove, and Mom reading me Polyanna. Times were tough, but in a good way. ...I'll be 75 in a month. Forest fires in 3 directions ...but the smoke has blown thru and the air is clearer, today. Truck wheel was off for a few days. Got the brakes fixed. We can drive again, if the fires get too close. .. See? It might be over 100F in a few hours, but everything is cool ...scoobee-du-wah scoo-bee-du.
I live in the Pacific Northwest (Washington) and I have dutifully done exactly 0 things to prepare 👍 :-)
Store water.
Always an essential. l@@VanillaMacaron551
I have weed!
@@vipermad358 You just need to share that info with the guy who has water and you'll be good to go.
@@billme372 I know how to make moonshine. Where does that fit in this little trade & survival chain?😅
as an oregonian... can this happen before I have to go to work?
Other channels for unbiased seismic info: Dutchsinse, Silki, and Stefan ❤
USCG did a table top simulation of this several yrs ago. Damage to everything west of I5 is likely to be so severe that rescue resources plan to prioritize what remains to the east.
In an hour drive north-south, there are so many bridges over roadways and waterways, it seems the only reasonable direction to go is east up whatever hill you live near. But I would have to cross 101 where I live. If the overpass holds, I might be ok. time of day and time of year will have a huge effect, too.
"if the overpass holds" How many Ambien (or drinks) does it take to go to sleep. Lol.
I live in Canada's Pacific _Southwest,_ just across the border from America's Pacific Northwest. I live in the middle floor of a 55-year-old wood-and-concrete low-rise apartment building, built before we even knew about the Cascadia fault. If I'm at home when the fault lets go, I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up pancaked into the underground parking level.
Are we neighbours? Same here. I know I need to have a 72 hour go-bag, but I'm not even sure I'll make it out of my building alive. At the very least, apartment buildings like ours should be made to provide secure storage outside of the building where residents can keep emergency supplies. No one in BC ever really talks about the impacts after the Big One hits. Real planning and preparation would cost too much money and too many lost votes. They're more interested in developing gas pipelines and LNG ports.
Hey neighbour! Same boat: basement suite of a 130yo house. 🫠
Canada is supposed to value its citizens' lives better than that. It should be illegal to rent out accommodation that hasn't been retrofitted and passed inspection as being safe in the event of the worst case earthquake.
If they can't retrofit, they need to demolish and rebuild. Building for earthquakes is just a matter of the right engineering and good workers who follow the plans.
@@progenitrixMight want to plan for NOT being at home when a big one hits, too. If your bldg truly will be matchsticks, your prepped stuff will be useless.
@@progenitrix I live by Arcata Bay and have a storage unit in Chico. The rent for my 10x10 just went from 70 to 110 dollars. Who could afford them when like every other industry, corporations buy out the mom 'n' pops? Most of them, rightly so, don't allow storage of food and water, because rodents WILL infest the place.
I live north of Seattle about 15 miles from the Salish Sea, and I bought an old trailer to keep in the backyard. It holds 40 gallons of water and 40 pounds of propane and has 380 watts of solar. We are told to prepare for a month without any help, so it will depend on which month the earthquake hits in. Summer preferably since I tend to drain the water tanks when the forecast is for freezing weather, however I have started spending winter in warmer areas, so I would watch on the news if it happens in winter.
There are so many bridges in this area that nobody knows or thinks about if they aren’t working in the streets or highway departments, and I expect many of them to be damaged, or closed at least until inspection.
My main concern after getting out of the house would be if I had enough food to last a month and potentially to share. I normally would supplement water with rain water that I filtered, but our summer is very dry, and this spring was incredibly dry, so water could be an issue both for drinking, and also for putting out fires that the earthquake might start
Know your house elevation - The height above sea level of the bottom of your house. If above 50 feet, you probably would not get hit by the tsunami.
Girl I swear my soul kept boomeranging in and out of my body every time you said 'but wait, there's more'
I live on Whidbey Island off the coast of WA. This terrifies me. I have all sorts of food, water, & emergency supplies for my family and pets. And go bags. But none of that will matter if there will be raging fires and toxic gas, not to mention that we would quickly run out of water (assuming no our water supplies survived the quake) . Plus we’d be trapped on an island (thinking about the Maui fires here), with no rescue and possibly no aid drops for what could be months. It’s given me pretty extreme anxiety for almost two years now. I’ve extensively researched other states, but (for all the reasons she mentioned) nowhere else is without issue. Do I purposely move somewhere that’s already experiencing issues (though not nearly as bad as what it’d be like if the Cascadia went), or roll the dice and stay where I am and just hope it doesn’t happen in my lifetime???? I feel like it’s consumed my life. BTW, for anyone not from here, there are also 5 active volcanos in WA alone, one of which (Mt. Ranier) I heard a volcanologist say keeps them up at night. Fun times. The PNW is so incredibly beautiful. And terrifying.
I just looked - the highest point on Whidbey Island is 484 feet, so there's a chance of survival of a tsunami if you get to higher ground. But, I'd want a home at least 150 feet above sea level where I could store all my supplies. If it has a lot of trees, owning a chain saw would be a big bonus, so that you could cut timber for a place to land a rescue helicopter.
@@j.patrickmoore9137Thank you. ❤
In Columbus, Ohio, natives told European Americans not to build near one of the rivers due to intense flooding events, but they were ignored. Instead of not doing anything, however, they tore down the building closest to the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers and built flood walls. A lot of people still deal with flooded basements in certain low points in the city. At least they did something though after to fix it.
The natives of the Valley of Mexico had a system that kept fresh and salt water in Lake Texcoco separate, in addition to preventing flooding. The Spanish ignored them, and now the city floods every year.
We shouldn't ignore the advice of people who have lived there for THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
there's good reason why natives never lived close to the rivers or ocean, they knew floods would happen
If you want a nightmare scenario - look at the location of the Burnaby Mountain Tank Farm. The terminus of the Trans Mountain Pipeline - up on a freaking mountain - above Burnaby Lake and the City of Burnaby. (Part of Greater Vancouver).
I forget about that one, and every time I'm reminded of it, I question how tf I could forget about it... (willful blocking, I see it on my bus route 🫠)
Richmond's international airport built on a river delta just a couple feet over sea level, up against said ocean, is in trouble. That's leaves Abbotsford airport as the closest airport to receive aid flights - and that's only if the bridges over the Fraser are still intact.
Keep up the Good Scientific Journalism!
This disaster just keeps getting worse. Stay safe, everyone.
i just wanted to say great job on the sound effects and soundtrack to this video
Eek. Prepare? Nothing. I moved from Honolulu a year ago and left all of my prep stuff with people there who I figured need it more than I. That said, most was tsunami prep. Not toxic plumes. Not earthquake. Guess it's time to get on that. Thanks for the update. And neighbors in Kern/Buckman, I'm retired from ER/trauma nursing in my mid-40s to do something else, but that knowledge base never truly leaves you. If this happens in our lifetime, I'll be looking to help anyone who needs it. 🤙
Well... guess that's how the cost of homes in BC will finally go down!
You mean up because you have 1 million people looking for homes
yeah b/c the homes will go down into rubble
Down six feet but probably not six figures🤷🏼♂️
IF anything there will be more land to redevelop properly and around transit.
@@kellyMitchell-r8xYeah, and the housing giants will probably sell the rubbles as "historic" houses or something...
Knowing America as a PNW native, we will do absolutely nothing to prepare for this, as that would cut into corporate profits.
Any help at all I would expect from Canada but they'd be just as fucked as we are.
The reality is everyone west of the Cascades will die within a week of the quake as all roads will be destroyed and the waterways packed with debris making rescue ships untenable. Helicopters can only get so far and carry so much on their own fuel tanks, and that's assuming fire hasn't erupted - everywhere - which, with recent history as an example, if it occurs between May and Oct, fire definitely will be uncontrollable.
And that's best case assuming that Rainer, Baker, St. Helens, Adams and Hood decide to sit this round of big one out. And that the Columbia stays it's current course.
The take away is no one will be coming to save us, for weeks.
Wow, you are really misinformed. It is amazing with the internet and yet many people don't bother to go look up information from accurate sources. Go look up earthquake and tsunami info provided by WA state and you will see there is a lot being done to prepare. All modern codes take these things into account.
Yes, sometimes an earthquake can trigger a volcano. Surviving this quake will take weeks, if not years. It will be a long term grind. You may lose everything, including all your family and friends. Then you have to start over again from zero. For some, it may not be worth it.
A Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake will be bad, but not that bad. Everybody west of the Cascades is not going to die, and the Columbia River is not going to change course. However, it will be chaos for many weeks and months afterwards.
As someone who lives 2 hours east of where Hurricane Helene devastated the mountains of North Carolina, you’re absolutely right.
There were no ways in or out for days except by helicopter.
That area is roughly the size of Belgium and less populated because of the terrain. A lot of those folks also have lived there for generations and know how to “rough it.”
FEMA is notoriously under equipped for large scale disasters like this in the early hours and days afterwards and it was no different here.
This area of the PNW is far more populated and larger. And many folks in cities don’t have the knowledge or resources to survive and “rough it out.” The consequences of an earthquake like this would be absolutely catastrophic.
Everyone needs a “go bag”, a paper map, and needs to make sure they know community members around them to come together and help each other survive.
@@NightPriestessNaamah What was left of FEMA was cut by the orange buffoon you saw fit to elect as your President. There's no FEMA anymore.
I have had the privilege of visiting the northwest only one time so far in my life. I am from the southeast but immediately felt at home in the midst of the firs, spruces, hemlocks etc. of what I thought was a magical land. Pretty soon I found out that my paradise had the deadly secret of this fault. So true to most things in life.
I still would live there if I could.
It's beautiful here. Every place I've lived has had a danger, though. Tornadoes, hurricanes, heatwaves, blizzards, flash floods. Mother Nature reminds us that we're only human, and try as we might, we can't fully control nature.
Well now you have to cover the Cascades Volcanic Arc too! 😂
Politicians are not going to do anything about it because it cost real money to do something about the safety of millions. That's $$$$ that can go in there own pockets instead.
USAID anyone? That's our money that has been laundered so much there's nothing left for those of us who paid in.
15% chance of it happening and the preparation is basically "don't live in an old home or anywhere on the immediate coast for the next 25 years".
There's a 100 per cent chance of it happening. It's just whether it's in the next 50 years or the next 150 years. Has been happening regularly for at least 18,000 years - they can tell this from the bands of sand in coastal soils.
don't worry, the "expert" said japan is ahead of us by 1,000 years. dear bless we need to trim the fat on some of these "experts" 🤣🤣🤣
@@I_author_articlesGee, it's almost as if they *are* , asshole.
@@I_author_articles I hope that you're having fun living in that imaginary world you created in your microscopic mind
@@I_author_articles Or you could take the time to investigate why that expert said that. Japan has been recording tsunami events since 684 AD. In comparison the earliest mention of a recorded American event mentioned in this episode was 300 years ago. The time difference between those two recorded events is 1341 years. So yeah, Japan has been paying attention for more than 1000 years longer than the USA.
I don't live in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, I don't live on the Pacific coast anywhere. However, I have a worry wart friend who was over agonizing over a Yellowstone eruption. I told him, forget Yellowstone, worry about the Cascadia fault, it is Over Due! Now he worries about both. Aren't I a good friend? (Oh, and I did tell him originally about Yellowstone, but I had said it probably wouldn't be in our lifetimes.)
You're absolutely right. Cascadia is a certainty in the next 300 years. For Yellowstone - try 25,000 years. Conditions just aren't right there.
There are other faults in the Intermountain West. Northern Utah is at great risk, and we have very few seismically reinforced buildings. After moving here from Seattle, we found out our unreinforced masonry house is one block from a major fault.
With friends like yo...😃
@@peternolan4107 yeah... I think part of it is he's just scared of everything. Now, I will grant he was off a Gulf of Mexico oil well a week when it blew up. Then a couple of days before going to a new one, it blew up. He got out of that business. I just figured he needed to worry about something else. The last eruption of Yellowstone ash made it here, barely. Cascadia isn't going to directly affect us. He's just going to horriblize anything, I figured it was best he worry about things he can't control and he'll be too old to help... he just turned 70. Oh, and that's how we met, he kept telling me he was older than various friends, who I knew were younger than I was. I kept telling him he was younger than me. I knew at the time I looked younger than several of those friends, but I am almost exactly 18 months older.
@roxyiconoclast there is a fault in my city. It isn't very active... I mean, it is Texas and nobody is fracking in this part of the state. Still, it is a fault, so, it needs to be considered. I have learned there are GPS markers around town, one in the parking lot of the apartment complex my client lived in when I was doing home health until 2013.
7:34 Sitting here watching this video inside the red zone of this graphic. Cool. Cool. Lol I work right next to PDX.
Our rural community in Northern California has formed a CERT team. We have immediate neighborhood clusters, to make sure somebody from that area knows all the neighbors. We have regular meetings with the fire safety board and are getting supplies together for a major natural disaster. We're not quite there, and all the federal cuts are making it harder to work on individual projects. But when it comes down to it, I know we'll have a few trained and prepared people around who care about their community.
As a Vancouver Islander this is a bummer ... but worth it to live on a beautiful Pacific Island. 🤙🏼
See ya on a random beach
are you on the west side or the east side?
To those of you saying that folks in the area of the disaster will be on their own you’re absolutely right.
As someone who lives 2 hours east of where Hurricane Helene devastated the mountains of North Carolina, I saw this play out through folks I knew who lived there.
There were no ways in or out for days except by helicopter.
That area is roughly the size of Belgium and less populated because of the terrain. A lot of those folks also have lived in the mountains for generations and know how to “rough it.”
FEMA is notoriously under equipped for large scale disasters like this - in the early hours and days afterwards.
This area of the PNW is far more populated and larger than the area that was affected by Helene. And many folks in cities don’t have the knowledge or resources to survive and “rough it out.” The consequences of an earthquake like this would be absolutely catastrophic.
Everyone needs a “go bag”, a paper map, and food and water to survive 72 hours. They also need to make sure they know community members around them to come together and help each other survive.
I grew up in the LA area, so the Northridge earthquake is still a strong memory for me. Now that I live in WA, I'm a bit concerned about how that disaster will play out. I have considered moving to a new region, but as you mentioned in this video, every region has something to worry about. If anything, my family has some semblance of a plan in case it happens, but I know we can do more.
Norghridge was just scary. Early morning, low frequency sound, no electricity fir a couple of days, made bbq in the yard because no electricity. But meat would not last without fridge working.
Plz link the tsunami safety video for the people who don’t know how to find it. Very important to link that!!
Excellent report. Thank you very much. We can only hope that this catastrophe will never happen !
I don't live in the PNW, but I do live in Sonoma County and had to abruptly evacuate during the Tubbs Fire of 2017. It taught me (and my family) the valuable lessons of having a go bag ready, having essential documents scanned to a (secure) cloud file, and knowing where the safe place we would gather if such a fire were to happen again. TLDR; have a plan.
a plan and a helicopter.
TLDR; is an Internet meme that means “Too Long, Didn’t Read” and is usually followed by a few words summarizing the longer text, in this case “have a plan”.
I live 100 meters from the Washington coast, but at an elevation of about 100 meters. I am currently building a house using the latest seismic engineering techniques and exceeding earthquake codes. Yet, with all of that, none of us will be completely safe in this location.. Fortunetly or kids in Seattle were all living in old highrises, but now are living in newer, safer buildings.
Nature doing what nature does, we just keep getting in the way.
I appreciate this. I moved from Texas and know how to survive extreme weather catastrophes there but still learning about the PNW. I know some people may see this as fear-mongering, but I see it as something to talk to elected officials about, make sure I understand the full picture so I’m an informed voter, and know how to prepare for my family and community. I guess surviving multiple tornadoes and other extreme weather events made me more thoughtful.
PNW person here. My family and neighbors have established emergency plans and supplies sufficient for 3 months, including electricity. It took quite a bit of planning, but we all feel more at ease in the event of any disaster. It may be rough, but we'll support each other.
My son works right next door to the fuel storage in Portland - we live directly North beyond the hills about 5 miles as the crow flies. So we talked about needing a gas mask, fire blanket, water and an evacuation route that isn't through the cloud of chemicals. Its no joke there are a lot of people working in the area of the fuel tanks that have no idea what could happen. And Portland will not take action to safeguard the fuel supply - business as usual here. Ugh !! But super useful information that may save my son if he has to evacuate !!! Thanks !
We live in Oregon. All 3 of us are disabled and dependent on medications We have a disaster kit, but we will die pretty quickly.
Bummer
If you have enough cash, you could purchase two or three months' worth of medications and rotate in the oldest when the newest arrives on your regular insurance prescriptions. No, insurance won't buy you the extra supply, but it's called "self-insurance." Kind of like having three months of emergency food supplies and rotating the oldest into use and the newest in the back.
No one thinks of the overlay of disasters happening at the same time. I.E 5 to 6 minutes into the earthquake the tsunami is already coming which leave less time to get to safety. Coupled with power outages and fires and broken roads and buildings leave very little openings to get to safety fast. Those that are trapped or pinned, their survival drops because not many emergency services can get to them in time.
So be prepared have a go bag, have evacuation points to meet at if traveling with family or friends and be sure to pay attention to your surroundings. Help don't hinder.
my city's plan is to have people evacuated on foot, but my car is where my go bag lives.
I live on the nootka fissure i will get a birdseye view of the rupture of Cascadia if I'm not just instantly crushed by my house.
Its incredibly shocking to me having lived on the coast my entire life how ignorant so many that live here are to the danger of a mega quake, I've had arguments with my neighbors who proclaim we don't get earthquakes here and it's all hyped up bs. Nevermind our local and regional governments not being prepared, a decent portion of the citizenry refuse to acknowledge the risk, nevermind prepare. I was laughed out of a local emergency meeting when i suggested that our village (nestled in a mountain Valley a couple of miles from the closest point of Cascadia to the shore) should prepared for not just 72hrs( the official recommendation) but prepare emergency supplies for over a month at least. Our schools our medical clinic and our village offices are a all built on fill. Our only road out it walled by tall granite cliffs, and not a single official or local leader had made any effort to address some of the very real threats to our community....
I am prepared but somehow i don't think it will make much difference, i can't feed house and tend to 2000 people. Our regional governments and emergency services will be overwhelmed if at all able to function after, and small communities like ours will be left for months without services of any kind. I suspect if any of us survive the immediate damage from the quake and tsunami that those that don't manage to crawl over 100km of mountain rubble to escape will be among the first cases of cannibalism after the big one. I might be better off if my house falls on me in the long run.
That being said the power of the planet is truly awe inspiring and i wouldnt live anywhere else, this truly is one of the most beautiflu landscapes on earth.
It is indeed SO beautiful. Was there visiting my bro in Corvallis last week. We hiked old growth, visited Newport, went to the Japanese garden and Intl Rose garden, and i completely understand why my brother fell in love with that bewitching place! He is VERY AWARE of the mega quake threat, but has no idea how to be prepared for it. Rather overwhelming, isn't it?
Thank you for continuing to show us the reality we live in. Excellent program.
My wife and I live in grants pass Oregon. We are prepared to move with water food and a tent because of wildfires and also the possibility of a quake.
@12:19 I was there at the Post 2018 Camp Fire relief area in the Walmart Parking Lot of Chico, California.. Lost everything. It was amazing, people from everywhere came to help. This is a great nation capable of great things.