"Hatunen" wrote in message
news:vepei1ppc4doj8cq5u0keirq33g5umm1da@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:01:41 -0700, "Bob Gardner"
> wrote:
>
>>There was an earthquake in New Madrid, Missouri in 1904...
>>
>>We enjoy living in Seattle because it does not get hurricanes or forest
>>fires. The location where we live is not subject to floods, either.
>>
>>The nice (!) thing about earthquakes is that, unlike fires, floods,
>>tornadoes, and hurricanes, you don't have days and days of anticipation,
>>and
>>the event itself is over fairly quickly.
>
> You're whistling past the graveyard, there. When the Really,
> Really Big Northwest Earthquake hits you won't consider it nice
> at all. And it will hit, sooner or later.
>
> Ashfall from an erupting Mt Rainier or Mt Baker or Mt Adams won't
> be nice either.
The prevailing winds from the west push ashfall east of Seattle. We never
saw any from Mt. St. Helens. And the lahars from Mt. Rainier won't get that
far.
However, there's talk of an 8.0 subduction earthquake....
Marianne
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