Future Earthquakes: New Madrid vs. Cascadia, Which Is The Lesser Evil?

There’s a phantom threat looming over North America… Actually, two. Two predicted cataclysms, two seismic adjustments that experts say will devastate the USA and neighboring regions with much more force than the other great unknown, the Big One of the San Andreas Fault… We’re talking about the earthquakes that will soon, or at most within a few decades, strike Cascadia - the vast region along the Pacific Ocean spanning Canada (British Columbia and Yukon) and the United States (Washington, Idaho, and Oregon) - and near New Madrid, a town in southeastern Missouri… What’s that? You hadn’t heard about them? Well, we’re not surprised… The earthquakes of centuries past affected regions so sparsely populated at the time that they were soon forgotten; unlike much more celebrated seismic locations (especially by the film industry), they left traces only in hidden chronicles of the time. However, the danger is still very present, and when another quake shakes that territory, it will likely find a com