The Cascadia Megaquake- Exploring the "Big One" that will DESTROY the Pacific Northwest 

This video was particularly well done. Congrats. One piece of advice for those of us living in earthquake country: Put a pair of old shoes under your bed. If the EQ happens overnight, slip 'em on before you exit your bed. The most common injury after an EQ is cut feet!

I live on the peninsula so I watch my earthquake app every day. Just offshore from Vancouver Island there have been just over 30 quakes in the past 30 hours or so. Also, Puget Sound is having an earthquake swarm right now. The offshore quakes have included many above magnitude 4 up to magnitude 4.8. Any of them could initiate a large rupture. Thanks for the video, Be safe and well

Yamaguchi's tree ring research at the ghost forest confirmed the January 1700 Japanese Tsunami origin as Cascadia.

Soon and very soon I am going to see the King. Hallelujah. HARPAZO

Well done on details some might consider being geeky. I love how you explained your formulaic estimations

An excellent portrayal of the seismic risk. I concur that the casualties, both deaths and injured, as described by FEMA and other government agencies is far to optimistic. In my opinion, a full rip of the Cascadia fault would see a minimum of 60,000 to 100,000 casualties at the end of 4 weeks. A significant number of the injured will not be able to obtain the necessary medical assistance in a timely manner which will increase the fatality numbers. Your hypothetical example has been narrated in other presentations. What isn't mentioned in all the discussions of the subject that I have seen thus far is the numerous after shocks having various intensities. What was weakened during the main event will now have a greater possibility of collapsing. Now imagine a deep, long cold spell coming out of Canada when that occurs; or a cold wet spell. Whom am I - A Building Inspector of 28 years in the PNW and a Structural engineering Technologist. My experience includes 50 story high rises, etc. The lack of honest clarity by the "Authorities" deeply disturbs me.

Juan De Fuca Plate - sounds like a Mexican Restaurant dish.

Nice job on your video and very informative as well. Appreciate the use of historical records and presenting this important material in a sound way with no hysterics that is so often injected into this type of public awareness messages. I lived in California (for work) and was in Big Bear when we had a 6.5 in 1992 and was very near the epicenter. Now we live north of Spokane so I very much appreciate your presentation. Keep up the good work!!!

Excellent job!!!!! You obviously did your research on this one. A partial rip is most likely, the devastating results are real.

Interesting timing for this video. There is a channel out there that has been predicting for weeks now an historic earthquake in the upper Cascade area to occur likely around July 7 timeline

Everyone will spill their coffee -- It will go down in Guinness Book of World Record as most number of spills.

The CASCADIA IS VERY ACTIVE RIGHT NOW. 👀

Great info! I watch everything about Cascadia and your video is among the best! On my way to work one day (from Bonney Lake to Burien) I realized the roads I was on were either Volcano, Tsunami, and/or Earthquake evacuation routes. I was offered a job and moved back to Kansas City in 2012.

IMO, you are right that casualties and injuries would be much much higher in a full rip, even a partial rip, depending on the location.

3:47 this was the inspiration of the art piece ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’

I live here in Portland and there have been swarms of earthquake activity up & down the Juan de Fuca plate the last couple of days. It actually IS Friday, late afternoon. And it IS very hot & traffic IS crazy right now. Everyone actually IS getting off work now & heading for the coast to cool off this weekend! Your proposed hypothetical scenario is just a little TOO accurate & timely for me...

Glad i found this channel. Thank you for being real and not another garbage AI channel. Like, sub, shared 👍🏽

I used to live in Copalis 76-77. My friend and I used to canoe the Copalis river frequently. We often wondered what killed those huge trees. We had no idea, otherwise I would not have lived on the beach!

I first learned about the Cascadia fault in the late 80s the Army Corps of Engineers was studying it. Rows and rows 12 ft high lined the hallways taped to the wall showing the movement of over 1000 miles of coastline. No one else seemed to know. When Loma Prieta hit I was in that as a first responder and diver with the Army. I thought the Cascadia would blow then. Now it’s any second it can hit.

FACTS: Native Washingtonian here. We are fully prepared, so we are actually NOT at risk. The Space Needle was designed to withstand a 10.0 quake. We worked hard with Japan for the last 50 years on quake and tsunami technologies. NOAA has tsunami boueys out at sea for both countries to share data. We created shock-disk technologies for our buildings, so they are quake-proof. I have been through THREE quakes, (I am 47) and was in a condo for one, and got to see the hidden shock disks work. The building whipped, but was unphased. We had next to zero damage with the over 6.0 Nesquali quake.We have quakes all the TIME and are absolutely fine. We have torn down ALL old brixk schools that were over two stories to protect children,while others were updated with technologies.🤷‍♀️ Almost ALL older buildings have already been retrofitted.

The timing of this video is impeccable!

This is an excellent, erudite summary explanation of the reason for and damage by a 9.2 earthquake in Cascadia of the Pacific Northwest of America. Bravo Solomon! Being a geologist, I enjoyed it even though people I love live there. But I live in hurricane ally on the opposite side of the country, so I can't criticize. In America, you can choose your disaster. Almost every location has something.

Yea! So we decided to move to the high desert where it’s 116F+ for weeks on end with zero rain at 1200’. If we can survive here, we can survive just about anywhere. The northern tip of the Sonoran Desert is a very curious landscape. From Scottsdale to Sedona the geology indicates a massive flood over the Mogollon Rim and through present day Phoenix, depositing gravel beds and sand way into Mexico.

Love your geology documentaries! Nice work mate!

This is a primary reason I moved 450 miles inland. That and too many people.

Much appreciated! Thank you 🙏

The 2015 Cascadia Megaquake Report was originally written for the LA Basin. Managers have misled the Public into thinking the remote Pacific NW has the next US West Coast Megaquake; not panicking 40 million Californians into fleeing their State. "Everything destroyed between the Pacific Ocean and I-5" can't happen to Seattle nor Portland, for the coastal mountains in WA and OR.

Excellent job. Unquestionably the best I've seen regarding Cascadia for numerous reasons. I'm well inland, just outside of Napavine so I'll miss the tsunami, but Cascadia still scares the hell out of me due mostly to the aftermath.

Great job on this documentary

Whoa this aged well. There was was just a 6.5 within this hour in Canada Port McNeill...

I am bless to know all. Thank you for all understandable

Excellent job thank you!

Great video!

Great Information, THIS IS Going To Happen, Sooner Than Later! Liked & Subed!❤ Keep Up The Great Work!❤

Stumbled across your channel and I'm so glad I did! Great video and new sub.

When Cascadia pops off it’s gonna be baaaaaaad. Way worse than people realize.

Good video. Got extra water and battery back ups so far.

Excellent video, really well done & great research and excellent presentation.

I'm thoroughly impressed with your work and style and everything. Awesome! If you're not a teacher idk why the hell not

Looks like a few people making comments have never taken a basic geology class and don't know about seismographs. The plates are real and have been mapped. If liquifaction occurs, no escape.

I'm very familiar with all the relevant research and available information about Cascadia, i must say your excellent commentary and video production is top notch. Absolutely brilliant acknowledgment of vital proportional information. Thanks for this. A huge public announcement. 🌿🇺🇲🌿🇺🇲🚨🚨🚨🚨

Great video

I keep seeing in my dreams a tsunami hitting white rock area it’s huge! Despite Victoria island 🏝️ this wave was huge

The best person to follow is Nick Zentner a professor of Geology at CWU. He talks about the Cascades in depth.

Really well done, "young man"-😁

I appreciate you didn’t “fear porn” this like most do for more views. I live on Mount Hood’s foothills and fear the day this happens

I like this video! Thank you:)❤❤❤

We have no clue! It's all just a guess! I live in Los Angeles. Every time we have an earthquake we have more questions we are unable to answer.

Scared but also fascinated by the possibility of this happening in my lifetime. Lord, have mercy.

I live for the Cascadia subduction. I am ready. I learned about this in 1st grade, that was a long time ago. All I can say about it is I have got to see this. Ready!

You did a GREAT JOB on this video, thanks for sharing!

What did the earthquake in China say to the earthquake in USA? Its your fault! Get it? I felt that one😂😂😂😂

I now live in NH but I'm from the PNW - Renton, Kitsap county, and Vancouver WA. Seeing PDX in your video makes me homesick. ❤

One more reason to enjoy life before this happens

Your documentary will be seen as prophetic when this happens in a few days.

Lived there for 8 years . Went through 2 earthquakes. 1 shook the house. 1 had rolling waves. Spooky.

I believe this video!! A9.3 mega quake would be truly devastating to us 13million folks whom live in the Pacific N.W. everything that 15 times bigger along with structures added to our state and communities, I think is going to be a dam of everything from trees to " you name it!!!" Will be a mountain of buildings,trees,etc,etc... it's a scary thought,but we are way past due for a major quake of unprecedented force!!!! And with this 90s to 100° weather lately;"well.....that is earth quake weather!! I was sitting out on my patio the other night,and I actually felt a slight tremor,and another one on the 6th of this month of which woke me up!! They both were only a few seconds long but,I felt them all the same....Yellowstone? It's also heating up......heads up and hopefully we all survive the next one!! God bless to all!! And to all may God be us!!❤❤❤❤

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Have you read that document that came out (more like book) in 2016? It breaks down what it would look like when the big one hits, the collapse of infrastructure, where most casualties will be, how far up the tsunami could go. I work for the State and they sent it in an email for fun, I think. I read the whole thing and have been obsessed (and educating others) since. Can't wait to watch your volcanoes episode! I can see Baker from my back yard.

Cool video

I'll take the Juan de Fuca with guacamole please

Enjoying Seattle Washington we are from the Midwest Hope area stays safe we need Our Heavenly Father's and Jesus's Protection and Love 💘 Peace to All Stay Safe 🙏❤

@solomonsoutdooradventures Firstly thank you for your interesting and concise discussion. Have you looked into the episodic tremor and slip (ETS) cycle (~15 month period) that has been proposed, monitored, and studied over the last couple decades? I saw a very interesting discussion of the last cycle's activity, which was non-conforming compared to previous episodes. You're probably very busy, but it would be super interesting to delve into this further.

Vancouver - we have a housing crisis: Cascadia subduction zone - ill fix that

I spent 40 years of my life in the PNW, the greater Seattle-Tacoma area. When I went back to visit in 2020, I literally cried when I saw my favorite volcano, Mt Rainier, again. Thank you so much for this! (I went to OH and now I'm in MO). And I know they (my family in Lakewood, south of Tacoma) could have the big megathrust quake that's predicted in five minutes! Hoping not, however.

Bring it on I am ready

Love your fonts! just an aside, i think some of the data you attribute to Atwater around 9 minutes is Goldfinger’s off-shore data.

The gulf of mexico is a big bowl. The cascadia will take out the states around it when it displaces that water. New navy map shows it.

I been hearing about the big one for long time now and nothing happen yet but when it does may God bless America because that is when our Lord Jesus we’ll be coming to get us

Washington mentioned wooooooh 🙌 🙌

Ironic that Vancouver just has a 6.4 earthquake yesterday (7/11/24). Waiting to see if these additional earthquake swarms trigger the "big one".

I’m tired of kilometers. I was raised to think in miles. It doesn’t translate for me. Oh, well I’ll be dead soon and the metric system will live on. But it’s still difficult to change your sense of distance and speed when you grew up on something else.

The Cascadia is definitely active right now from Ca up to Canada and increasing in sizes with quakes. I know that Chile had the largest mega quake of a 9.5 or so, and Japan, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Alaska, Tonga, All Shifted and caused huge quakes and tsunamis all over. The Cascadia I believe will be bigger and shake longer from a Big part of Northern California all the way up to Canada will shake everything and everywhere hard then the Mega Tsunami is coming and even Southern, Ca up to the Bay area will be affected. The Cascadia may produce a 9.6 and the Tsunami will be bigger and wider than the 1700 one.

Great video, if i could add another bit of information that's relevant to Cascadia and specifically the southern area of Cascadia along California. If i recall correctly, about 80% of full margin ruptures (so that's the entire faultline slipping all at once) also result in the San Andreas fault rupturing and causing magnatude 8 quakes. That is a colossal double whammy for California. Be prepared and have a plan, that's our best course of action and hopefully it doesn't happen in our lifetimes...However over the last month the southern portion of the fault has been very active and over the last few days the tremors off the coast of Vancouver Island have been 4.5 and above so it's something to certainly keep in mind. Be safe, everyone.

finally it BEGINS

scary shit - hope we don’t see this in our lifetime- thx for vid

I understand everything you are discussing about the big one, being a 6th generation Washingtonian. I just find it odd that you would choose a time when those faults, not to mention Mt. Raineer and Mt. St. Helens have been showing a bit of activity that already has people on alert. We already have enough crazy and panic in the world. Anyone living in these areas are very aware of where they live. Unfortunately, there are always the clueless that either just moved here, without reasearch, or just don;t understand and videos like this at this time can cause panic. I've seen it before. Please consider this next time you release a video.. Thank you.

Just subscribed, great information, if the mega quake occurred, in the Cascadia, would Australia get tidal waves from it?.. Thankyou for your video,from Nth QLD, Australia..👍..

I have seen many bits on this and they are all the same. I have seen credible forecasts which go as high as 9.8. Few people address the vertical acceleration. Another neglected topic is the effect on poor or weak infrastructure inland. What bridge or dam or toxic waste pond, or taillings pile or cliff face over a highway is going to collapse, fail, give way, slide and fall down 100, 200, 300 or even more miles inland. I bet there is LOTS much of which will hamper rescue efforts re: resources and transportation. Do a show on that. Cheers!

My question for Solomon, are you a geology student? Started following after watching your rockhounding videos.

The Richter Scale has been outdated for 40 years...sadly, except in Hollywood. 😅

Excellent report. Question: In the event of a Partial rupture, is it reasonable that the other portion will soon follow?

Always fun to find out that the only scale you've known your whole life was out of date before you were even born lol

volcanoes are tied to this.

Very interesting. The consequences of that quake would be disastrous. I’m living safely in South Australia which is mildly(hopefully) seismically active. The mid north of the state is more active and has scale 2 or 3 rumbles quite regularly. The area is sparsely populated so it doesn’t cause any widespread panic. However, my wife and I are planning a holiday in the area in a few months time. I’ve noticed a couple of small recent quakes in the area. I haven’t told my wife because she has an irrational fear of earthquakes. 😊.

I saw Gengar!

We could only hope

I have an outdoor storage container in the corner of my yard with camping gear and other supplies. and a house that is more than 100 years old. lol... I'll be camping out I'm sure.

1:18 that is a classic tear drop and crater rim from indicating a large impact sight, where is this located? thanks.

The cascadia earthquake AND the Yellowstone super volcano will occur at the same time, 👀

For the past few weeks, I've been packing runners, wherever I go. Consider the "overdue" "Big One" and combine the increasing Solar activity with the depletion of the magnetic field... Sounds like a perfect Storm, doesn't it?

I get great non fear mongering seismic information about the mega quake from Feed My Sheep Earthquake Reports.

And not to mention the possiblity of the 4 volcanos that could erupt shortly after. Shasta, lassen, Mount Rainier and St Helen.

My best suggestion for electricity, if your home can survive this, is a giant propane tank and a generator that can use it and plenty of extra oil and sparkplugs for it. You can also charge large batteries when you use it to get the most out of it. A 12v 300ah LiFeP04 battery can run a freezer or small fridge for a very long time to save on fuel.

I’m curious of the average span between quakes as we get closer to current. So like the past 20 mega quakes instead of the full 40. Also the last 15 or 10. Does that average get shorter? Are they getting more frequent?

Wonder how Shasta dam would handle this? Probably not well

Watch Overcome Babylon with Abraham’s theory. And watch Endtimes Brandon.

We had a 6.0+ earthquake in the early 2000's

Should we evacuate the entire area right now to avoid all these deaths when the earthquake hits?

Might an earthquake of that magnitude affect the PNW volcanos?