Cascadia can make an earthquake almost 30 times more energetic than the San Andreas to start with, and then it generates a tsunami at the same time, which the side-by-side motion of the San Andreas can't do. Chris Goldfinger More Quotes by Chris Goldfinger More Quotes From Chris Goldfinger In this case, three minutes -- and I've been in a 9 in Japan -- three minutes is an eternity. It is a very, very long time, we'll lose a lot of bridges. We'll lose our highway routes. The coast will probably be closed by down bridges or landslides or both. Chris Goldfinger top-news I wish there were, but, no, there isn't, we can't look forward and say we are due or overdue really. Chris Goldfinger top-news You're going to have three to five minutes of shaking, and if you're used to earthquakes in California, they typically last 15 to 30 seconds and before you are really sure of what is happening, it is over. Chris Goldfinger top-news The more we learn about it, the less we like it, because it is turning out to be a big hazard as well. Chris Goldfinger top-news We're 300 years into a 240 year cycle. Chris Goldfinger us-news
