we know about a giant 1700 earthquake off the West Coast partly because the Japanese kept meticulous tsunami records for centuries and in 1700 they recorded a freak tsunami that hit them without any noticeable earthquake
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Replying to @goblinodds
whole thing is worth readinghttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
ahahaha coolcoolcool thanks for the reminder also isnt there a volcano up there that's theoretically gonna blanket the entire country in ash at some point
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Replying to @goblinodds
several I think if you fly in on a clear day you can see them arrayed across the landscape Ranier going would be especially big, Mount St Helens went in '80 and the ash hit Minnesota you can still buy packets of it if you're into that sort of thingpic.twitter.com/YYjZwBY5We
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Replying to @eigenrobot
brb googling once again to find the least natural-disaster-prone part of the world
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Replying to @Historycourses @goblinodds
having experienced multiple kinds of natural disasters I can say that I enjoyed every one of them and I recommend you move to japan
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Replying to @eigenrobot @goblinodds
Lol worst I went through was Sandy on the Jersey Shore.
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Replying to @Historycourses @eigenrobot
i thought this was a reference to something that happened on the show
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incredible
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