This New Yorker article about an [overdue, devastating earthquake] is a great read.
The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle - The New Yorker
Among natural disasters, tsunamis may be the closest to being completely unsurvivable. The only likely way to outlive one is not to be there when it happens: to steer clear of the vulnerable area in the first place, or get yourself to high ground as fast as possible. For the seventy-one thousand people who live in Cascadia’s inundation zone, that will mean evacuating in the narrow window after one disaster ends and before another begins.
Nature is amazing. And terrible. Also, can we please get a replacement for the Richter scale?