Download or read book Saving Cascadia written by John J. Nance and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few hundred years ago, Cascadia Island didn't even exist. Like the Washington seacoast, it was rock submerged beneath the Pacific. A massive earthquake changed that, exploding the rock upward, making it land -- unstable land, according to seismologist Dr. Doug Lam. Lam has spent years researching the Cascadia Subduction Zone. He published a theory that the unrelieved tectonic strain beneath the idyllic landscape of Cascadia Island could be triggered with modern construction processes -- with catastrophic results. The paper was disregarded, even ridiculed, by his peers and by megawealthy developer Mick Walker, who stands to earn millions from the construction of a luxury resort on Cascadia. The elegant casino, hotel, and convention center will reap millions for him even if the tiny island only lasts for a short time... When a series of earthquakes begins to shake the Northwest Corridor, Doug's worst fears are confirmed. In an attempt to convince Walker to evacuate Cascadia immediately, Doug hurries to join guests arriving for the resort's grand opening. As the tremors wreak havoc across the Northwest coastal area, the military is left with too few resources to assist the people on Cascadia. Convinced that the island will be in ruins within hours, Doug reluctantly calls upon his girlfriend, Jennifer Lindstrom, president of Nightingale Aviation -- a major medical transport helicopter company -- for help. With snow falling, visibility dropping, and winds increasing, Doug embarks on an impossible mission with Jennifer and Nightingale's helicopters to evacuate over three hundred people, while smaller earthquakes continue to herald the approach of a catastrophic tsunami. John J. Nance hurtles readers along a nail-biting quest to rescue hundreds of stranded vacationers and resort staff. Meticulously researched, and with the signature authenticity only a veteran pilot could provide, Saving Cascadia is a hair-raising thriller of awesome magnitude.
Download or read book The Big One written by Elizabeth Rusch and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one ever thought the Pacific Northwest was due for an earthquake, let alone a catastrophic one. But geologists are transforming our understanding of the grave dangers the population in the region of Cascadia face—will there be a big one? And what can be done to save lives? America's Pacific Northwest has relatively few earthquakes—only a handful each year that cause even moderately noticeable shaking. But a couple decades ago, scientists discovered a geological feature running along the coast that in other parts of the world regularly triggers massive earthquakes of 8.0 magnitude and higher. Were there once massive earthquakes in this part of the world? Geologists think there were. Now a small group of scientists are studying things that you might not think have anything to do with earthquakes—marsh soil, ocean sediments, landslide debris, and ghost forests—and they have reason to believe that the Pacific Northwest is likely not as idyllic as it was once assumed. The population is likely in grave danger of a massive earthquake at some point. What can be done? The big one can't be stopped, but scientists are working tirelessly to learn as much as they can to prepare.
Download or read book Cascadia Saves the Day Mermaids to the Rescue 4 written by Lisa Ann Scott and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Rainbow Magic and Mermaid Tales will love this new series full of adventures under the sea! When a huge whirlpool blows through Astoria, all of Princess Cascadia's hard work on the Sand Sculpture Festival is destroyed. While the rest of the Royal Mermaid Rescue Crew helps clean up the city, Cascadia is left ot try to fix the festival by herself. But then a mysterious helper reveals that there's more damage than Cascadia could have ever imagined. Will Cascadia and her new friend save the day...or will she have to wave goodbye to her favorite tradition?
Download or read book Cascadia s Fault written by Jerry Thompson and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-03-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrillingly rendered, yet “level–headed” look at the Cascadia Subduction Zone and the devastating natural disasters it promises (Booklist) There is 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. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic time—at least thirty–six major events in the last 10,000 years. This fault generates a monster earthquake about every 500 years. And the monster is due to return at any time. It could happen 200 years from now, or it could be tonight. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is virtually identical to the offshore fault that wrecked Sumatra in 2004. It will generate the same earthquake we saw in Sumatra, at magnitude nine or higher, sending crippling shockwaves across a far wider area than any California quake. 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. 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 an impending crisis almost unprecedented in modern history.
Download or read book Mushrooms of Cascadia written by Michael W. Beug and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guidebook to mushrooms of Pacific Northwest of North America.
Download or read book Cascadia Clash written by Geoffrey C. Arnold and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the Seattle Sounders and the Portland Timbers have met on the pitch to battle for territorial respect and Pacific Northwest dominance. Though the kits have changed, the intensity of this epic rivalry between the neighboring clubs and their passionate and unruly supporters has not. Drawing on interviews and deep research, veteran sportswriter Geoffrey C. Arnold takes a behind-the-scenes look at the villains and champions, chants and tifos, bragging rights and blowups that define this feud. Join the March to the Match and celebrate with chainsaw antics as "Cascadia Clash" chronicles the Flounders versus Portscum tradition from its 1975 beginnings in the North American Soccer League to its current status as Major League Soccer's greatest grudge match.
Download or read book Becoming Rooted written by Randy Woodley and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to become rooted in the land? How can we become better relatives to our greatest teacher, the Earth? Becoming Rooted invites us to live out a deeply spiritual relationship with the whole community of creation and with Creator. Through meditations and ideas for reflection and action, Randy Woodley, an activist, author, scholar, and Cherokee descendant, recognized by the Keetoowah Band, guides us on a one-hundred-day journey to reconnect with the Earth. Woodley invites us to come away from the American dream--otherwise known as an Indigenous nightmare--and get in touch with the water, land, plants, and creatures around us, with the people who lived on that land for thousands of years prior to Europeans' arrival, and with ourselves. In walking toward the harmony way, we honor balance, wholeness, and connection. Creation is always teaching us. Our task is to look, and to listen, and to live well. She is teaching us now.
Download or read book Nixie Makes Waves Mermaids to the Rescue 1 written by Lisa Ann Scott and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Rainbow Magic and Mermaid Tales will love this new series full of adventures under the sea! Be brave and keep the seas safe! Nixie can't wait to join the Royal Mermaid Rescue Crew. Along with a magical seapony partner, she'll save merpeople in danger and use her natural creativity to keep the seas safe! But then Nixie gets matched with Rip -- a super-speedy seapony who's at the top of his class but also a strict rule-follower. Rip and Nixie couldn't be more different! Will Nixie be able to befriend Rip...or will she have to look for another fish in the sea?
Download or read book Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies written by David G. James and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David G. James and David Nunnallee present the life histories of the virtually all of the 158 butterfly species occurring in southern British Columbia, Washington, northern Idaho, and northern Oregon in exceptional and riveting detail for the first time in "Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies." Color photographs of each stage of life egg, every larval instar, pupa, adult accompany information on the biology, ecology, and rearing of each species.
Download or read book Cascadia Wild written by Mitch Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Throne written by Chris Kuzneski and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Metéora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten secret. In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top - the holy men taking their secret to their rocky graves. Halfway across Europe, a terrified academic fears for his life. Richard Byrd has nearly uncovered the location of one of the Seven Ancient Wonders - the statue of Zeus and his mighty throne. But Byrd's search has also uncovered a forbidden conspiracy, and there are those who would do anything to conceal its dark agenda...
Download or read book The Big One written by Elizabeth Rusch and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About earth movement and plate tectonics, and the possibility of earthquakes at the Cascadia Subduction Zone, an area between British Columbia and northern California.
Download or read book Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice written by Nik Janos and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Portland’s harbor, environmental justice groups challenge the EPA for a more thorough cleanup of the Willamette River. Near Olympia, the Puyallup assert their tribal sovereignty and treaty rights to fish. Seattle housing activists demand that Amazon pay to address the affordability crisis it helped create. Urban Cascadia, the infrastructure, social networks, built environments, and non-human animals and plants that are interconnected in the increasingly urbanized bioregion that surrounds Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, enjoys a reputation for progressive ambitions and forward-thinking green urbanism. Yet legacies of settler colonialism and environmental inequalities contradict these ambitions, even as people strive to achieve those progressive ideals. In this edited volume, historians, geographers, urbanists, and other scholars critically examine these contradictions to better understand the capitalist urbanization of nature, the creation of social and environmental inequalities, and the movements to fight for social and environmental justice. Neither a story of green disillusion nor one of green boosterism, Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice reveals how the region can address broader issues of environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and the politics of environmental change.
Download or read book Cascadia Fallen Tahoma s Hammer written by Austin Chambers and published by Cascadia Fallen. This book was released on 2019-05-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahoma--the Native tribal name for Mt. Rainier--wakes up after a devastating 9.0 earthquake shatters the Pacific Northwest. Entire counties are covered in mud, rock and earth. Landslides and tsunamis add to the annihilation. Power and internet are knocked out to the entire American West. Hundreds of thousands die on the first day of the New World. Slaughter County shooting-range manager Phil Walker knows things will never be the same. The former Marine is no stranger to tragedy, having lost his wife to cancer and his leg to a firefight. Phil establishes a secure camp for his family and friends. Meanwhile, Phil's son Crane and Captain Marie Darnell fight to stop a disaster at a nearby shipyard. The catastrophe has unleashed a nuclear nightmare inside a submarine and threatened to sink an aircraft carrier permanently. Is it too late, as the worst of humanity surfaces in a rapidly deteriorating world? Will the American Spirit be enough as Phil and his community reel from new and dangerous threats?
Download or read book Cascadia Saves the Day written by Lisa Ann Scott and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When a huge whirlpool blows through Astoria, all of Princess Cascadia's hard work on the Sand Sculpture Festival is destroyed. While the rest of the Royal Mermaid Rescue Crew helps clean up the city, Cascadia is left to try to fix the festival by herself. But then a mysterious helper reveals that there's more damage than Cascadia could have ever imagined. Will Cascadia and her new friend save the day or will she have to wave goodbye to her favorite tradition?"--
Download or read book Ash Ridley and the Phoenix written by Lisa Foiles and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Ash waves goodbye to her miserable life as a traveling circus stablehand when she and her feisty bird, Flynn, are whisked away to the Academy of Beasts and Magic: a school where wealthy children train unicorns, manticores, and scarf-wearing ice dragons. The downside to owning such a highly magical beast? Everyone wants him. When a mysterious sorcerer suggests the Academy may have dark intentions, Ash realizes her tiny bird might be the key to saving Cascadia…or destroying it.
Download or read book Trinity written by Lauren Dane and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published; newly refreshed by author Fall in love with the de La Vega cat shifters in this classic paranormal romance from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Dane, a spinoff of the fan-favorite Cascadia Wolves series Renee Parcell’s magic has always been just under the surface—ready to be called, if only she’d acknowledge it. But she’s more than happy without adding magic to the mix. With a fulfilling job and a cat shifter mate, Galen, who loves her fiercely and treats her well, she has everything she needs without living as a witch. Until Jack Meyers, enforcer of the national wolf pack, walks into her life and changes everything. Handsome, charming and honest, Jack has a connection with Renee that is so strong, it can only be a mate bond. What could be disaster turns to hope when they discover that their connection is made more powerful—and more intense—by Galen’s presence. Cat, wolf, witch. With Jack and Galen, Renee has the chance to be happier than she’d ever dreamed. But with an enemy surfacing to threaten her safety, their new life together may be short-lived… This book is approximately 82,000 words One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise!
