The Great Quake and the Great Drowning - how Indigenous societies of the Pacific Northwest passed stories down over generations to survive the tsunamis and earthquakes that occurred only every 500 years or so.

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/great-quake-and-great-drowning/

The Great Quake and the Great Drowning | Hakai Magazine

Mega-quakes have periodically rocked North America’s Pacific Northwest. Indigenous people told terrifying stories about the devastation but refused to leave.

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@afewbugs I remember reading that a few years ago and falling down a hole learning about the Cascadia fault zone. I thought this was a great idea: https://www.wired.com/story/when-the-big-one-hits-portland-cargo-bikers-will-save-you/
When the Big One Hits Portland, Cargo Bikers Will Save You

The Pacific Northwest is due for a massive quake. I trained to help rescue efforts in the aftermath—by racing around the city on an electric kid hauler.

WIRED
@afewbugs Thank you for the great article! And thanks for showing me a cool magazine that I'd never seen. Very nice.

@afewbugs I really dig their 10 years of articles at Hakai magazine. I hope they can keep them online for a while longer.
https://hakaimagazine.com

I'm also digging the new site where some of their writers have gone:
https://www.biographic.com/

#News #Zine #OnlineMagazine #Nature #Reporting

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