Also quite practical, as Mt. Rainier, for example, is expected to blow its top in the geological immediate future (highest res possible is 5k years per pixel, so to speak).
I don't think all that many people realize how techtonically active the PacNW/VeryBroaderSeattleArea is: there are volcanoes everywhere, and we had one essentially light off a nuke within itself just a handful of decades ago.
As an old geology professor of mine used to say: "Mankind exists by geologic consent only."
Probably even before Mt. Rainier goes the Pacific Northwest is going to experience one of if not the largest earthquake in the continental US in hundreds of years. The fault up there makes ours down in California look like a child’s toy.
I don't think all that many people realize how techtonically active the PacNW/VeryBroaderSeattleArea is: there are volcanoes everywhere, and we had one essentially light off a nuke within itself just a handful of decades ago.
As an old geology professor of mine used to say: "Mankind exists by geologic consent only."