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Today it’s no secret to anyone that Yellowstone Volcano, which then look and wake up and burst into universal tragedy, hanging the sword of Damocles over all of North America, and above all over USA. However, the United States may not say hello to the earthquake, compared to which the current catastrophes of this kind, occurring in one or the other point of the planet, seem childish fun.
It is about this that the seismologist Katherine Schulz writes on the pages of the magazine The New Yorker, indicating that the fault line is a thousand kilometers so called the Cascadia subduction zone, stretching across North California, can bring catastrophic at any time earthquake. As a result of this tragedy, tens of thousands will die. people, not to mention the wounded. And refugees, that is, people deprived of your own home, there will be millions.
According to Katherine, this can happen even tomorrow, although such “gift of nature” is quite possible only for future generations Americans. However, in the coming decades this disaster necessarily happen, everything goes to that.
Moreover, if only part of Cascadia moves, most likely, its southern part, then an earthquake will occur with a magnitude of no higher than 8.6 point, and if there is a break in the face by one hundred percent, then the magnitude may amount to 9.2 points or more. It is just powerful earthquake in the history of our civilization, and exciting vast territory. In this case, one should expect tragedies for many millions of Americans. And from an economic point of view, all this is so shaking the USA that it won’t seem enough …
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