All DoD personnel accounted for and safe in Japan...

[villanelle]

Voluntary evac now underway.

 

[helolumpy]

NAVADMIN 084/11 is on the streets today, all PCS moves to Japan are cancelled UFN.

If anyone who hasn't checked out of their present command is to be held UFN.

Let the trainwreck begin!

 

[helolumpy]

Get sent a link to this today. HS-14 crews made a video of their flights into Japan.


Sometimes knowing you've helped save some lives is better than any medal you could receive...

(If this video is a repost, mea culpa.)

 

[Randy Daytona]

In regards to earthquakes in the US, all I have ever heard was San Andreas - this article was news to me. Anybody know more about the Cascadia fault line in Oregon and Washington? (This thread seemed to be the closest to the subject.)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

 

[Jim123]

This thread:

 

[Brett327]

In regards to earthquakes in the US, all I have ever heard was San Andreas - this article was news to me. Anybody know more about the Cascadia fault line in Oregon and Washington? (This thread seemed to be the closest to the subject.)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

This story is really old, and concerns a geologic hazard that most reasonably aware people on the west coast understand. Though it wasn't due to the cascadia fault system, Seattle suffered a major 6.7 magnitude quake in 2001. We have a bunch of volcanoes too. Sometimes they erupt. In fact, as chance would have it, I'll be in the Mt St Helens blast zone tomorrow, taking pictures.

Bottom line, there are earthquake hazards all over the place, even on the east coast.