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The Cascadia Subduction zone runs from Canada to California about 100 miles inland from the Pacific Coast… basically right through Portland. It’s had 41 quakes in the last 10,000 years, the last being a 9.0 magnitude quake in 1700. We’re due again. This impending Big One makes the news every once in a while, people think about preparedness for a while, and then everyone fades back into their daily lives. But the pressure under our feet continues to grow. 
Since we haven’t seen Big One Coverage in a while we thought we’d fill the gap ourselves. You didn’t plan on seeing this article and the Big One will come just as unexpectedly, but it WILL hit… what will you do? If you don’t have a clear, concise answer for yourself and your family, then please spend a few minutes checking out these resources… and making a plan.
- The Big One Is Coming. What Will Happen to Portland? By Randy Gregg and Sarah Hutchins in Portland Monthly, Feb 2018
- Unprepared…Will We Be Ready For The Megaquake In Oregon? Multiple stories by OPB Staff on OPB Website
- Get Prepared, Oregon Health Authority on Oregon.gov. Multiple articles on earthquakes and earthquake preparedness, broken into
- Cascadia Resilience Information
- Reducing The Health Impact Of Earthquakes
- What To Do BEFORE An Earthquake
- What To Do DURING An Earthquake (With Specific Situations)
- What To Do AFTER An Earthquake
- Children’s Needs
- Are You Prepared To Camp In Your Home After The Cascadia Quake? By Tom Banse on OPB, Mar 2018
- Music venues in ‘danger of closure’ over seismic upgrades, by Emily Burris and KOIN 6 News Staff on KOIN6 website, Jan 2019
- The Government Is Accelerating Plans For The West Coast’s Earthquake Warning System, by Emma Sarappo on Pacific Standard, Oct 2018
- S. Pacific Northwest under-prepared for tsunamis, experts say, by Sharon Bernstein on Reuters, Jan 2018
- Looking Closer at LEAP- More detail on a vital program in Portland, by Charles Letherwood in Your Car Matters, Oct 2011
- The Really Big One- An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when. By Kathryn Schulz in The New Yorker, Jul 2015
- The Next Cascadian Megaquake May Be Sooner Than You Think, by Mindy Weisberger on Live Science, May 2018
- Parts Of The Pacific Northwest’s Cascadia Fault Are More Seismically Active Than Others – New Imaging Data Suggests Why, by Miles Bodmer and Doug Toomey in The Conversation US, Aug 2018
- New Cascadia subduction zone earthquake study ‘is worse news for Portland northward to Seattle’, by Douglas Perry in The Oregonian, Jul 2018
