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in a matter of a few days, a series of deadly earthquakes hit Japan and Ecuador, and New Yorker writer Kathryn Schulz won a Pulitzer for "The Really Big One," her brilliant disaster-movie-like narrative of what awaits those of us living along the Cascadia subduction zone.


Which begs the question: Should people living in the Northwest be
worried that the weekend's catastrophic Ecuador and Japan quakes –
hitting magnitudes of 7.8 and 7.3, respectively – are a harbinger for
the inevitable death, destruction and tsunamis that awaits us someday?

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