[californiadisasters] 310 Years Ago Tonight

Tonight is the 310th anniversary of the last Great Quake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone stretching from Cape Mendocino to Vancouver Island and resulting Pacific Ocean Basin-wide tsunami event... for comparison think 2004 Andaman-Sumatra Quake and Indian Ocean Tsunami but right here on the West Coast and around the Pacific Rim.

Wikipedia has a good page on it with many great links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake

Some of the most interesting research on this event comes from the aboriginal legends and below are some great links on this great multi-disciplinary scientific "murder" investigation of a geological and hydrologic crime committed 310 years ago tonight.

http://www.oregongeology.com/sub/earthquakes/oraltraditions.htm

http://www.princeton.edu/~stcweb/html/pope98essay.html

http://www.mrbrewer.org/Documents/Theses/IslandWood/Web/PDFs/EARTHQUAKEMYTHS%20AND%20LEGENDS.pdf

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v379/n6562/abs/379246a0.html

An automatic anniversary notice will post here when the precise time of the earthquake arrives at around 9 PM.

Kimmer

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