[Lucky Guy]

I might be far enough north, 17 miles from Canada, to avoid a lot of the carnage, depends on the wind direction. At least there’ll be a warning before Yellowstone goes wild. Cascadia is just going to happen. On the coast, the roads will be shot from the big shake and everyone will be on foot headed for the high ground where they can watch the wave come ashore. The Tsunami might turn out to be a good thing if it washes away a lot of damage.

When the kanuks invade your a-- is grass.

97 will be the new I5. If the 84 and 26 on/off ramps go down all the exits out of town will be surface streets.

 

[pharmseller]

I'm not opening that.

Coward

 

[Fletcher]

Mom's gonna fix it all soon... See you in ARIZONIA BAY... hehe... Learn to swim...

 

[Snopro]

Nick Zentner has some of the more entertaining explanations….here’s one.

Every time I drive to Portland I imagine what the landslide and Missoula floods must have looked like.

 

[JeffO]

I moved to MT, what earthquake……?

You have the Yellowstone Caldera to worry about!

ETA: I see y’all covered that one.

I have a good generator (IE, sized to run my 140’ deep well pump), 50 gallons of gas in my boat tank, two big freezers full of food, 4 cords of wood, and I live in the woods with deer and turkey all over the place. Plus a year-round creek with cutthroat trout and crawdads. And finally, I’m rather heavily armed (don’t you dare call it an arsenal!) and am proficient with them.

It has occurred to me that a bad enough quake to really mess things up as far as, y’know, civilization in my AO, is almost certainly gonna collapse my well. So that sucks. But I do have the creek

 

[Larry K]

Picked up a 30 pack of Rainier on sale yesterday.

Get more if Walt is around.

 

[Larry K]

Or so I dreamed last night. The highways were all twisted up, bridges collapsed, total chaos. I was in my work truck on I 205 about to cross North over the Tualatin when it stuck.

If it happens, you heard it here, I'm psychic!

--

More seriously, it got me to thinking.

Do you have provisions in mind should it happen?

I may be keeping a little more water in the truck, and a side-arm with me more consistently.

I have a sweet little off grid solar system I built from watching YT videos. No gas generator needed. Runs lights, computers, freezers--and AC on the hot days. Not enough sun to heat with, but there's wood. Freezers are full.

I think my biggest problem would be if I'm 25 miles hike away from home, including river crossings, while the zombies are out.

Cause the walls start shaking,the Earth was quaking.

 

[JeffO]

You guys have me stressing again that I don’t have my machines earthquake-strapped a la California.

But seriously. Not an engineer here, but my big lathe weighs almost 5k pounds. It’s more or less next to a 2x4 framed wall. How the heck could I anchor 5k lbs to a 2x4 wall that keeps the damn thing from falling over in a BIG earthquake? Seems like any anchor would just rip out and really damage the (load bearing) wall in the process!

Suppose a guy could put a heavy steel plate across, what, 3 studs… have a forged lifting eye attached to the plate. Lathe strapped to that. Ugh. Not gonna happen.

 

[Waterfish]

We have a rider on our homeowner's insurance for earthquakes. Without that if your home was destroyed by an earthquake you would not be covered. The earthquake rider costs $479.00/year with a 15% deductible. Through State Farm.

 

[waterbobber]

Waterbobber. That’s a good one, need to watch it again. Maybe later today. Thanks for posting.

FYI - Nick Zentner has many interesting talks/videos on NW geology, Tsunami, eruptions, and floods. Search for his name on YouTube. If you ever get the chance to see a talk in person from him it’s well worth it.

 

[gideeyup]

Tell me about it...

 

[CodSpeed]

You guys have me stressing again that I don’t have my machines earthquake-strapped a la California.

But seriously. Not an engineer here, but my big lathe weighs almost 5k pounds. It’s more or less next to a 2x4 framed wall. How the heck could I anchor 5k lbs to a 2x4 wall that keeps the damn thing from falling over in a BIG earthquake? Seems like any anchor would just rip out and really damage the (load bearing) wall in the process!

Suppose a guy could put a heavy steel plate across, what, 3 studs… have a forged lifting eye attached to the plate. Lathe strapped to that. Ugh. Not gonna happen.

It wouldn’t be too complicated to come up with something that can mitigate the shaking. But the structure of it might be “in your way“ to some extent.

 

[CodSpeed]

FYI - Nick Zentner has many interesting talks/videos on NW geology, Tsunami, eruptions, and floods. Search for his name on YouTube. If you ever get the chance to see a talk in person from him it’s well worth it.

You should read the fine print. I used to have the same rider with StateFarm. Until I found out your home has to be like I can’t remember 70 or 80 or 90% destroyed before you can collect anything. So for example, $90,000 worth of damage? Screw you.

Maybe you have something better than what I was able to negotiate.

 

[Ragde]

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[DogZilla15]

The new houses that get built in our neighborhood in Astoria are built on a bunch of piling driven into the earth 20 feet or so. Must be so there’s a better transfer of the shaking from the ground to the structure above. What engineers can dream up boggles the mind.

 

[T-Bone082170]

The new houses that get built in our neighborhood in Astoria are built on a bunch of piling driven into the earth 20 feet or so. Must be so there’s a better transfer of the shaking from the ground to the structure above. What engineers can dream up boggles the mind.

Yes indeed but do you really want to find out if it works?

 

[waterbobber]

You should read the fine print. I used to have the same rider with StateFarm. Until I found out your home has to be like I can’t remember 70 or 80 or 90% destroyed before you can collect anything. So for example, $90,000 worth of damage? Screw you.

Maybe you have something better than what I was able to negotiate.

I Don’t have it. I looked around for something though. I’ll be screwed like the rest of you.

 

[waterbobber]

The new houses that get built in our neighborhood in Astoria are built on a bunch of piling driven into the earth 20 feet or so. Must be so there’s a better transfer of the shaking from the ground to the structure above. What engineers can dream up boggles the mind.

I think it’s to better protect against liquefaction of the soil, as with movement everything turns to jello.

 

[DogZilla15]

WB. Yea but the shaking will be so bad the liquification is the least of their worries. The ground is mostly sand fill on top of whatever is below. Those piling will look cool sticking out of the ground with the house scattered in pieces all around them.

 

[JeffO]

I think it’s to better protect against liquefaction of the soil, as with movement everything turns to jello.

Here in the southern Valley we are on a giant sedimentary basin. My land sure is. Zero rocks, anywhere. Supposedly it’s all gonna liquify (temporarily) in a Big One.