Nothing better for attracting coffees is to start the myth that the Ring of Fire is a living entity. We will have a grand tour, with my expansive, interesting voice. Physics is relegated to brackets.
We start with the magnificent spectacle of Alaska, with it's clean, giant tear in the Earth (subduction zone). All of these zones must produce M9's every 300 years or so to maintain their bright, shiny appearances (clean trenches).
We haven't had much action in the past hundred years, so we are 'due' (random clustering). The M9's are thousands of kilometres long and must always stay on a smooth section of the railway track. Unlike other myths, these faults are weakness zones, and do not 'produce' earthquakes. They just go with the flow of the stresses around them (strain accumulators).
Looking closely, we have the beautiful clean cliffs of the subduction zone.
And here is the muck of the Cascadia zone. (sediment). They always go 'Big Bad Cascadia' but they are full of it (probably 1000 years).
Moving on over, we have the Tsunami Shotgun. This is over by Russia, and when it shoots its load, it drowns the whole Pacific (large tsunami). This is what really happened in 1700, not Cascadia. Both sides go at the same time, and I don't know what happens. Honestly, when this blows, forget the high land, it isn't high enough.
- next is Japan
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