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This news is of no comfort to yours truly. Scientists think that what happened in Japan is now due to happen on the west coast. Scientists say major earthquakes tend to happen in clusters, with a quake on one side of a plate followed by one on the other some weeks or months later. "It is as though the earth becomes like a great brass bell," writes author Simon Winchester in Newsweek. "Strike it in one place, and the vibrations carry." The only corner left untouched would mean devastation from either the San Andreas fault or Cascadia fault—the latter of which would trigger a tsunami. San Andreas has not erupted in 105 years, and Cascadia in 250. Simon Winchester (and I) feel that the inevitable events aren’t being taken seriously enough.