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Maps vii
Foreword Simon Winchester xi
Introduction xvii
Part 1 Tremors and Riffles
1 Mexico City: Preview of Coming Events 3
2 Lessons from the Rubble: A Front-Page Story 13
3 The Alaska Megathrust: Cascadia's Northern Cousin 29
4 Against the Wind of Convention: Plafker, Benioff, and Press 43
5 Cauldron and Crust: The Rehabilitation of Continental Drift 53
6 Nuke on a Fault: Early Clues in Humboldt Bay 61
7 Proving the Doubters Wrong: The Chile Connection 70
8 Mount St. Helens: Cascadia's Smoking Gun? 78
Part 2 Setbacks and Breakthroughs
9 Mud Cores and Lasers: The Search for Evidence 95
10 The Whoops Factor: Cascadia's True Nature Revealed 113
11 Quake Hunters: Finding Cascadia's Ghost Forest 125
12 Cedars, Peat, and Turbidites: A Tipping Point at Monmouth 134
13 Cascadia's Segmented Past: Apocalypse or Decades of Terror? 147
14 Digital Water: Catching Waves in a Computer 161
15 Defining the Zone: Hot Rocks and High Water 177
16 Cracks, Missing Rings, and Native Voices: Closing In on a Killer Quake 190
17 The Orphan Tsunami: Final Proof of Cascadia's Last Rupture 200
18 Episodic Tremor and Slip: Tracking Cascadia with GPS 212
19 Turbidite Timeline: Cascadia's Long and Violent History 221
20 When's This Going to Happen? The Problems with Prediction 233
Part 3 Shockwaves
21 Facing Reality: Cascadia Equals Sumatra 269
22 The Next Wave: Thinking the Unthinkable 278
23 Watching It Happen, Wishing It Wouldn't 288
24 Cascadia's Fault: Day of Reckoning 300
Epilogue: Survival and Resilience, a State of Mind 309
Afterword 319
Acknowledgments 337
Suggestions for Further Reading 339
Index 349
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