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PhuckSJWs t1_j8lt7kl wrote

Reply to comment by normalabby in Was Western Washington’s infrastructure the reason the Nisqually quake had no direct fatalities? by yungcarwashy

For sure, there WAS liquefaction, but it was very limited and low impact and almost entirely in the industrial areas south of downtown where it is mostly just garbage till soil on top of old tidal flats.

given the widescale "terraforming" the settlers did to the original Seattle hills to level out the city, it (liquefaction) was extremely limited in location and impact. we will not be so lucky with a closer and shallower quake.

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normalabby t1_j8lu7ng wrote

No disagreement on a differently located quake, just want to make sure we're not telling folks all the glacial till this region is built on is cushioning us. It didn't make the Nisqually less intense, the distance did. Someone would've felt the Nisqually more anywhere in the Puget Sound region that's on top of glacial till more than riding it out on bedrock, in the few places that exists.

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