Smitha 🌸🌋🎻<p>Really was not expecting to hear the name <a href="https://kind.social/tags/Shimanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shimanto</span></a> (AKA <a href="https://kind.social/tags/KochiPrefecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KochiPrefecture</span></a>) in a lecture about the <a href="https://kind.social/tags/Cascadia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cascadia</span></a> / <a href="https://kind.social/tags/JuanDeFuca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JuanDeFuca</span></a> fault.</p><p>The Shimanto Mountains were mentioned as an analog of our own <a href="https://kind.social/tags/OlympicMountains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OlympicMountains</span></a> - both are non-volcanic, near a <a href="https://kind.social/tags/megathrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megathrust</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/SubductionZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SubductionZone</span></a> (<a href="https://kind.social/tags/NankaiTrough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NankaiTrough</span></a> for Japan: major <a href="https://kind.social/tags/earthquake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earthquake</span></a> every 100-200 years), and contain remnants of paleomegathrust (new fave word) fault lines thanks to historic and ongoing subduction.</p><p>As terrifying as it can be, I love <a href="https://kind.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> so much.</p>