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Originally Posted by InlandEmpire
For me, above anything else is that understanding in the back of my mind that we're overdue for the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake. It's not going to be pretty. BUT - every day has its own dangers so no need to sit and worry.
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True, be prepared, but don't be paralyzed with daily worry about it. Same for the "Big One" in CA. While both the Cascadia and CA quake on the southern branch of the San Andreas may be "overdue" based on the historical average recurrence pattern, that doesn't mean they will happen in the next few years. It may take many decades. Live your life. Recurrence intervals have a wide variance.
Right now, my worries about infectious new covid variants that evade the vaccine, supply shortages of essentials, soaring inflation, soaring crime and societal breakdown, and increasingly bitter relations between nuclear powers (U.S.-Russia, U.S.-China etc.) leading to an accidental conflict are higher on my list of concerns than earthquakes, or right up there.