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Source/Further reading:
In-depth feature from the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
Detailed piece from Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-the-pacific-northwest-rsquo-s-ldquo-big-one-rdquo-is-more-likely-to-strike/
The mythology of the 1700 quake: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/thunderbird-and-the-orphan-tsunami-cascadia-1700/
More on the mythology - excellent examples: https://slate.com/technology/2015/09/earthquakes-and-tsunamis-in-the-pacific-northwest-native-american-myths-and-geoscience.html
Could Cascadia trigger the San Andreas fault? https://www.nwpb.org/2019/12/03/the-big-one-and-another-one-research-shows-cascadia-quakes-sometimes-trigger-san-andreas/
The science-y bit: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/crust/cascadia.php
Cascadia on a map: https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/THE-BIG-ONE.jpg