It’s the kind of writing that really grabs you by the short hairs. I know I wasn’t alone in spending a gripping lunch hour at my desk, sad turkey sandwich forgotten, reading Kathryn Schultz’s New Yorker article entitled The Really Big One. The Thompsons live in the village of Sechelt on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. In between documentary projects, Jerry has written two screenplays, a television series pilot, and is currently at work on a novel. In January 1994, he began writing and directing hour-long documentaries in partnership with his wife, producer Bette Thompson, through their production company, Raincoast Storylines Ltd. He won two Gemini awards (Canada's equivalent of the Emmy) for his stories about Bhopal and Berlin. On November 9th, 1989, he climbed the Berlin Wall to witness the collapse of Communism. From geo-engineering the climate, to the ozone hole in Australia, to the struggling Sandinista government in Nicaragua, to ethnic civil war in Sri Lanka, and the chemical disaster in Bhopal. He has covered everything from forestry and fishing to earthquakes and tsunamis. He has worked as a radio and television reporter in Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver and as a network news correspondent on assignments around the world. By some bizarre twist of fate he became a journalist, documentary filmmaker and author instead.īorn in Arkansas and raised in South Carolina, he is a graduate of the University of Delaware. JERRY THOMPSON's first grand ambition was to become a bush pilot and to live the idyllic life of a hermit in Canada's north woods. In light of recent massive quakes in Haiti, Chile, and Mexico, Cascadia's Fault not only tells the story of this potentially devastating earthquake and the tsunamis it will spawn, it also warns us about the impending crisis almost unprecedented in modern history. Slamming into Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver, it will send tidal waves to the shores of Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, damaging the economies of the Pacific Rim countries and their trading partners for years to come. It will generate the same earthquake we saw in Sumatra, at magnitude 9 or higher, sending crippling shockwaves across a far wider area than any California quake. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is virtually identical to the offshore fault that wrecked Sumatra in 2004.
It could happen 200 years from now, or it could be tonight. And the monster is due to return at any time. This fault generates a monster earthquake about every 500 years. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic time at least 36 major events in the last 10,000 years. There's a crack in the earth's crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia.
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