West Coast Earthquake will be worse then Japan, Christchurch NZ.

[Maverick]

New Zealand earthquake holds lessons for Seattle
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020343625_earthquakelessonsxml.html

Report makes chilling forecast on Northwest quake
On the very last line says it all: "Oregonians as individuals are underprepared"
http://seattletimes.com/html/localn...estearthquakepreparedness.html?prmid=obinsite

 

[DrHenley]

If the New Madrid Fault tears a new one, it will make the West Coast quake look puny. The area affected was sparsely populated the last time (One Million Square Miles in the 1811-1812 quakes).

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/11/20/us-earthquake-study-idUSTRE4AJ9EV20081120


The Federal Emergency Management Agency said if earthquakes strike in what geologists define as the New Madrid Seismic Zone, they would cause "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States."

FEMA predicted a large earthquake would cause "widespread and catastrophic physical damage" across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee -- home to some 44 million people.