Washington Is Hiding Something Nobody Talks About

Washington has a forest of dead cedars standing in salt water, a mountain carrying more glacier ice than any other peak in the lower 48, and Seattle sitting on top of a slab of ocean floor that's sliding underneath it right now. Washington looks like one state. Underneath, it's being built and broken by the same machine: a diving plate, a line of volcanoes, ice-age floods, a fault under downtown Seattle, and a locked edge offshore that has dropped the entire coast in a single night. Thirty facts, counting down, and by number one you'll see why almost all of them trace back to one thing happening under Washington right now. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:35 #30 The mountain and the trench 1:15 #29 Rain on one side 2:03 #28 The ghost forest 2:46 #27 The orphan tsunami 3:24 #26 The winter flood 4:02 #25 The mountain that lost its top 4:38 #24 The floating forest 5:09 #23 The towns on the mud 5:58 #22 The floods that carved the desert 7:00 #21 The lava that buried the east 7:45 #20 The buried marsh 9:05 #19 The fault under downtown 9:48 #18 The ice over Seattle 10:33 #17 Mountains made of seafloor 11:06 #16 The state that wasn't here 11:46 #15 The line of volcanoes 12:23 #14 Ice on a fire 13:05 #13 Earthquakes from deep down 13:42 #12 The earthquake nobody feels 14:25 #11 The state being squeezed 15:09 #10 The fault offshore 15:43 #9 The leftover plate 16:24 #8 Where the volcanoes come from 17:05 #7 The shovel 17:53 #6 Locked 18:39 #5 The snap 19:15 #4 The orphan's parent 20:01 #3 How often 20:46 #2 The wave and the roof 21:36 #1 The locked edge 23:06 Recap If you were in Seattle on February 28th, 2001, or you remember the morning St. Helens blew in 1980, tell me in the comments where you were. And if you live on the coast and you've walked your tsunami evacuation route, I want that story too. Subscribe for more places that are hiding something. The next one on the list is already waiting. Sources U.S. Geological Survey (Cascadia Subduction Zone, Juan de Fuca Plate, Mount Rainier lahar hazards, Mount St. Helens, episodic tremor and slip, the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, paleoseismology of the Washington coast); National Park Service (Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Olympic National Park, North Cascades); NOAA (tsunami hazard, Cascadia earthquake and tsunami research, deep-sea turbidite records); Washington State Department of Natural Resources (Seattle Fault, lahar evacuation, tsunami preparedness); Washington Emergency Management Division (tsunami vertical evacuation structures, Ocosta Elementary School); University of Washington (Brian Atwater's buried marsh research, Puget Sound geology, ice-age floods); U.S. Forest Service (Hoh Rain Forest, Gifford Pinchot National Forest); Columbia River Basalt Group research; Ice Age Floods Institute; Japanese historical tsunami records and the 1996 Cascadia 1700 earthquake studies; peer-reviewed papers on the 1700 Cascadia earthquake, ghost forests, turbidite paleoseismology, and episodic tremor and slip. Full source list available on request. #Washington #Geography #Borderless