escape. the new yorker quotes a fema worker that said that everything west of interstate 5 will be toast. everything west of interstate 5 is gone. that seattle, tacoma portland olympia, salem and eugene wiped out. all together about 7 million people. that is not including tourists. so think of summer time. fema calculations indicate that it will damage or destroy about a million buildings, including 3,000 schools and 1/3 of all fire stations and perhaps the worst of it all, these sorts of earthquakes happen in regular intervals in exactly this part of the world, have forever, on average, according to scientists every 240 years. when was the last one? the last one was in 1700 it struck in the pacific northwest, and sent a 600 foot wave of water ally the way to japan.