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In a March episode of PBS Terra‘s “Weathered,” meteorologist and host Maiya May showed how vulnerable the Pacific Northwest is to the so-called “Big One” earthquake along Cascadia. She said that this disaster would likely cause more damage to the U.S. than the magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake did to Japan in 2011. “Here on the West Coast of the United States, we’re nowhere near as prepared as Japan was for this kind of disaster,” May said. It can tell an earthquake’s magnitude in an instant and is home to the world’s biggest flood infrastructure. Most of its buildings are also earthquake-proof, something that served the nation well during the first few minutes of the 2011 disaster.

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