Friends and colleagues contributed to many of the important discoveries and helped to piece the pages together. It’s been my luck to have an insider’s view of this extraordinary story. 26, 1700 reads like a detective novel with chapters unfolding as new techniques and ways of studying earthquakes became available. For the next few installments of this column, I look at how and what we know about this earthquake and how this can help us prepare for the next one. A great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone ruptured a 600 to 700 mile-long fault from Humboldt County to British Columbia, shaking the peoples of Northern California and the Pacific Northwest and spawning a tsunami large enough to cause damage in Japan more than 5,000 miles away.
Learn more about the history of earthquakes in North America.Three hundred seventeen years ago, the last really Big One let loose in our area. The Thompsons live in the village of Sechelt on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast. In between documentary projects, Jerry has written two screenplays, a television series pilot, and is currently at work on a novel. In January 1994, he began writing and directing hour-long documentaries in partnership with his wife, producer Bette Thompson, through their production company, Raincoast Storylines Ltd.
From geo-engineering the climate, to the ozone hole in Australia, to the struggling Sandinista government in Nicaragua, to ethnic civil war in Sri Lanka, and the chemical disaster in Bhopal. He has covered everything from forestry and fishing to earthquakes and tsunamis. Jerry Thompson has worked as a radio and television reporter in Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver and as a network news correspondent on assignments around the world. Or it could happen during this episode of Locus Focus, when we will be talking with Jerry Thompson, a journalist who has been following this story for twenty-five years, and is author of Cascadia’s Fault, which tells the tale of this potentially devastating earthquake and the killer waves it will spawn. The last time it shook was in 1700 and there is roughly a 30 percent chance that just such a disaster could happen within the next fifty years. This fault generates a monster earthquake about every 500 years. It turns out that the fault to watch is the much longer and potentially damaging Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fracture in the earth’s crust roughly 60 miles offshore, that starts just north of the San Andreas Fault in northern California and runs all the way to northern Vancouver Island. It used to be that when people talked about the "Big One," they were referring to the next giant earthquake along the San Andreas Fault, that in the parlance of the time, might cause California to fall into the ocean.
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