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jlf1961 -> RE: Kudos to Japan (3/20/2011 2:17:55 PM)
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If I may be so bold, Mayor Nagin made a city wide evacuation order, unfortunately, there was not enough support to get the people without transportation out of the city.
Then the levees broke, stranding those who did not evacuate.
Then it was three days before we got anyone into the city to help the people stuck at the super dome.
Basically, the state and federal government were ill prepared to handle anything like katrina.
Now, look at the Cascadia Subduction Zone that stretches from Northern California to just north of Vancouver British Columbia.
The last known great earthquake in the northwest was in January 1700, the Cascadia Earthquake. Geological evidence indicates that great earthquakes may have occurred at least seven times in the last 3,500 years, suggesting a return time of 300 to 600 years. There is also evidence of accompanying tsunamis with every earthquake, and one line of evidence for these earthquakes is tsunami damage, and through Japanese records of tsunamis.
The next rupture of the Cascadia Subduction Zone will cause widespread destruction throughout the Pacific Northwest. Cascadia subduction zone
Considering that in the last century, no one thought to build to earthquake standards north of California, the possible extent of damage would be far worse than what happened in Japan, the only difference is that there is not a Nuclear Plant anywhere near the coast.
The US would be hard pressed to deal with a disaster of that magnitude, if the entire fault ruptured, which is the usual case with these types of faults.
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