Earthquake Today!

I see there was an earthquake here in Oregon today.

Y'know, I'd really like to have left those damn things behind in So Cal. But the reality is we live in the Ring of Fire, Earthquake Zone.
And Alaska gets their share of the damn things too.
Everybody's got something. And Kodiak had the additional thrill of having a tidal wave, after the big earthquake in '64. I'll take both over a tornado anyday. God those scare me the worst.

One of my parent's friends had a home movie (8 or 16mm film) of the tidal wave coming in over Kodiak, and we got to see it. I remember the harbor's breakwater rocks were just alive with zillions of rats beating it the hell out of there. Then I seem to remember the camera pans to the local mini-mountain, and you could see people running up the side of the mountain. Meanwhile this goof is standing there filming it coming right at him. It wasn't like a big cresting wave, it was just water rising way higher and faster than seemed possible. Left fishing boats sitting in the middle of what had been the downtown area.

Went a-Googling to find a picture for you, since I'm being so tangential, and found Timothy Smith's terrific account of the quake and wave, aka "tsunami."