Talk:1700 Cascadia earthquake

message: Have there been speculations about what would happen if this zone were to produce a high-magnitude quake "early", say in the next 10 years or so?  Seems like it would be pretty disasterous for the Pacific Northwest.  Are there any efforts to prepare for such an eventuality?  If you know anything about this, please expand the article.
:I would advise you to prepare yourself, and not rely on any outside assistance. If a 9+ event happens, it will be every person for themselves. No infrastructure will remain standing, local and regional governments would disappear essentially. 68.144.78.184 (talk) 23:00, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Can anyone tell me what would happen to eastern Vancouver Island (ie. the city of Nanaimo) if the Big One were to hit? Oddity- (talk) 02:59, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If the entire Cascadia subduction zone released in a 9+ event you can expect the land mass to sink into the ocean by a few metres around the central VI region. The entire region would be cast into the stone age as all power from the mainland (VI has almost no power plants) would be cut off for a time period spanning weeks. I lived in Nanaimo for 13 years and I was appalled at the lack of simple preparation (eg potable water on hand, radios, fire tools) by the residents there. 68.144.78.184 (talk) 22:57, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eastern VI? 

message: In the Tsunami article, in the other historical tsunamis section, there is reference to this earthquake and mention of "Awa, Japan".  As noted at AWA, there are two cities, two historical provinces, and a present day district that could all be referenced by the phrase "Awa, Japan", and all of them could be coastal.  Could someone look into disambiguating this reference? Thanks. Courtland 00:55, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awa, Japan reference 

message: Who came up with this name?  I've seen coverage of the 9.0/1700 quake in papers up here (BC) and that name has never been used.  Sure, it's fashionable, but since when does it become a proper name for other things than the geographer's fiction it started out as?Skookum1 23:57, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Cascadia Earthquake"?? 

message: If there's a better name, we'll move the article & make Cascadia Earthquake a redirect.  Ain't no big deal.  But I've never heard it referred as anything else.  Anyone have input here?
dino 05:02, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: If there's a better name ...

message: "most notably Seattle, Portland, and Tacoma," – is there a source for this? I'm guessing Vancouver or Victoria might make this list as well, possibly more importantly than Tacoma.  Or is it somehow expected that the quake would only affect the US? Cleduc 08:38, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future quake 

message: Did anyone else happen to see today's Oregonian, "Native American oral histories clarify what science hasn't revealed of a 1700 quake", p. C10? It tells of an article (or group of articles; the article is unclear) in the latest Journal of the Oregon Historical Society that both archeological findings and oral traditions tell of the cost in human life that this earthquake had on the people who were living in the area. There is the choice between using the Oregonian article (not authoritative, but available), or someone stalking the shelf of their local library until this issue arrives (authoritative, but not yet available).
Adding this, as well as the story of how the pieces of evidence about this earthquake were found and assembled, would make this a Featured Article IMHO. -- llywrch 00:28, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Oregonian article would be a WP:Reliable source. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 20:33, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Native American traditions 

message: In all the research I did for Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site, I never found specific reference to this quake, but it seems absurd that it could've been a different quake causing the damage. Does it seem like too much of an OR stretch to add a link to this article in the other? Murderbike (talk) 00:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Effects 

message: For anyone interested in taking a closer look at the scientific thinking regarding recurrence rate: take look at USGS Open-File Report 2011–1310.  It's the summary of a meeting in Nov. 2011 of the leading experts, and has links to the pertinent literature. They were particularly interested in multiple M 8 quakes that only partially rupture the zone, in addition to the M 9 quakes from complete ruptures. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 23:20, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resource 

message: I am going be tagging the paragraph that starts: "" This is highly dubious, as the GSA does not conduct studies; it is the publisher of studies done by others. The reference includes a single url, which is not an adequate citation, and the link is to a website of a the Watershed Processes Group at Oregon State University, which does not list any related publication. Citations should contain full bibliographic details (such as the authors' names, where published, etc.) to enable finding of the source; a merely url is quite insufficient. And where the url fails, well, verification has failed.
The references/citations here are quite inadequate overall, and need work. I am almost tempted to take them on, but I would first want to know if anyone is going to have grievious objections.  I suspect that verification will require some re-writing, with the prospect that the whole article should be rewritten. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 23:37, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inadequate citations 

message: *https://www.opb.org/news/series/unprepared/jan-26-1700-how-scientists-know-when-the-last-big-earthquake-happened-here/
---Another Believer (Talk) 15:55, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source