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Shaping up as an important milestone is the demolition of two large dams in Washington State's Elwha River, which flows from the mountains of Olympic National Park into the Juan de Fuca Strait. Their removal, scheduled to begin in 2008, would occur in stages, and if it goes as planned, the Pacific Northwest will lose only a tiny amount of hydropower and regain a legendary salmon fishery. But there could be problems. Behind the Elwha dams are some 18 million cubic yards of accumulated sediment, enough to fill four superdomes, and if a lot of that sediment starts...
Whole lotta shakin??? Hundreds of minor quakes have been recorded along the Juan de Fuca and Explorer plates over the past 25 years...
Scientists have known for some time about the 700-mile-long fault off the coast of Washington, Oregon and California, where a wayward slab of the earth's crust known as the Juan de Fuca plate is trying to slide under continental North America. What they didn't appreciate until quite recently was that the juncture where the two plates are locked together can snap violently like a giant spring, unleashing a tsunami as large and terrifying as the one that pummeled South Asia...
...EARTHQUAKE FACTORY The Cascadia Subduction Zone???where the Juan de Fuca Plate meets the North American Plate???is remarkably similar to the subterranean system that triggered the tsunami in the Indian Ocean and is capable of generating equally powerful earthquakes and equally destructive waves Some key differences: a tsunami???warning system, better housing construction and a more rugged and less populous coastline. The death toll from a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest might be in the hundreds but not in the tens of thousands...
...person who most affected the world for good or ill would have been America's neoconservative policymakers, who completely changed the geopolitical scheme of things in 2003. Of course, that might not have been a feel-good cover. I look forward to Time's recovering its backbone. Roland Fuca Ottawa, Canada...