Cascadia's Fault : The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America (Paperback)

from Beartracker

This book is a must-read for everyone living in the Pacific Northwest. The Cascidia subduction zone has the potential to produce an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 or above. Couple with that will be a huge tsunami, on the order of the one that hit Japan in 2011. Anyone living or working within 125 mi...

from jefware

Coming on the heels of the Japan quake of March 2011, it strikes a great balance between sensationalism and science journalism. It is a sensational event, Cascidian Earthquake. It is also a great scientific detective story of how geophysicists came to recognize that it could happen.

from robrod1

It was an informative book, and it was very well written.

from jlbattis

You have to read this book. That's not a suggestion. That Simon Winchester wrote the introduction speaks volumes to me, as his A Crack in the Edge of the World placed the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake in its proper geological perspective. This is not only the history of a future event...

from Beartracker

This book is a must-read for everyone living in the Pacific Northwest. The Cascidia subduction zone has the potential to produce an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 or above. Couple with that will be a huge tsunami, on the order of the one that hit Japan in 2011. Anyone living or working within 125 mi...