> Funny, cause I live in the SF Bay Area, where the earthquakes are frequent, but they can never reach the magnitude of what's possible by the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
What makes you think a big one ("The Big One") isn't going to hit the Bay Area?
What makes you think a big one ("The Big One") isn't going to hit the Bay Area?
10x the ground movement amplitude — 32x the total energy release, though!
But from what I recall reading, the big one that hits Seattle will exceed the big one that hits the Bay. Seattle's big ones are higher magnitude but less frequent. Iirc it's also likely the 9.0 that hits Seattle won't be in most of our lifetimes. The last really big one was before Europeans arrived.