April
21
/ 2021
A presentation at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Seismic Society of America (SSA) has cast doubt on the traditional scientific narrative about one of the most infamous earthquakes in modern history. The event in question was the Cascadia earthquake of January 26, 1700, an 8.7-9.2-magnitude seismic disaster that wreaked havoc along the western coast of North America and created a massive tsunami that traveled across the Pacific Ocean before hitting the shores of Japan. The immense and prolonged shaking of the earth of the Cascadia earthquake, plus associated flooding caused by the inrush of ocean water over the sinking land, physically transformed the coastal and near-coastal areas of what is now the Pacific Northwest in the United States and
