Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America

It doesn’t have to be such a disaster. It’s only a disaster if we don’t do something.

证据弧落到行动命题，plot 89。

These mountains should be squeezed!” Which is precisely what he, Schmidt, and a team of others from the Geological Survey would try to confirm.

科学家动机出场，cast 86。

if you have two channels or two canyon systems, 200 kilometers [125 miles] apart, and one has thirteen turbidites and the other has thirteen turbidites—how could you possibly pass the confluence and go downstream and not have twenty-six turbidites?

船上论证加速，pace 88。

When the sun came up you could see—holy shit! It looked like it had been bombed—like the city had been bombed

口语现场感，prose 89。

In little more than three minutes of horrific shaking, 10,000 people had died. Unofficial estimates would later push the death toll to 40,000 or more.

城市尺度锚定威胁，world 93。

The twinkling sprawl of suburbia gradually gave way to a black hole at the heart of the city.

航拍开场极有拉力，hook 93。

This was done purely with thinking power. And that’s out of fashion these days.

合流检验作科学叙事核，innov 87。

What we don’t want to have is just the assumption that it’s hopeless. Because it’s not.

韧性乐观收束，ending 91。