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Titania - The largest moon of Uranus.

Enceladus - A moon of Saturn discovered by William Herschel in 1789 & named for a mythological giant.

Regolith - Loose rocks and dust on a space body's surface.

Telesto - A moon of Saturn named for a mythological sea goddess.

Not necessarily it appears. Article: >> Dead exoplanets can have oxygen-rich atmospheres too

Year - Time period based on Earth's rotation [around the Sun].

Radiant - the point in the sky that meteor showers appear to come from.

Romulus - Star Trek's inhabited second planet of the Romulan system in Sector Z-6.

Saros - the ~18 year cycle of alignment of the Earth, Moon, and Sun.

Alpha Centauri - the closest star to our solar system @ 4.37 light-years.

Ylem - primordial matter that formed all the elements

Maybe. A new study has allowed researchers to make the most detailed map to date of the plumbing and they find there is magma o'plenty for a super eruption. > Study: Yellowstone magma much bigger than thought (Update) Here's a couple pertinent FAQs rom USGS. (I'm having to refresh these pages a couple times to get them to display.) > Are earthquakes at Yellowstone related to volcanism? > Is there a relationship between large earthquakes (>M6) that occur along major fault zones and nearby volcanic eruptions?

Possibly. However we must presume the slow quakes have been going on all along even though they are a recent discovery, and yet the Cascadia mega-quakes do occur with [more-or-less] regularity. The article I quoted goes on to say: So the exact correlation of slow to fast quakes of Cascadia is an open question.

Obviously. I added the slow quake info following your 'Also of interest:' lead in the OP, though.

I doubt it is going to happen slowly ... While I suspect Unity+ is unaware of slow quakes and that you meant to be facetious Strange, there is indeed a slow quake element to the Cascadia fault system. Full article: >> Pacific Northwest Geodetic Array: Central Washington University Only slightly off topic, the potential for a devastating 'really big one' occurring nowhere near a plate boundary also exists in the United States. I suspect the folks there are even less prepared than usins in the Pacific Northwest. Duck & cover!! New Madrid Seismic Zone Here's some history and more data on the faults from USGS: >> New Madrid 1811-1812 Earthquakes

TV news stations out of Portland all covered the New Yorker article last night. A local geologist acknowledged most of the facts given in the article but contended the shaking inland would not be as severe as stated and that it would be felt but insufficient to knock a person down. The news here has been doing stories periodically on the Cascadia danger for years so any 'revelation' is more for you outlanders.

Here in Washington State USA, Foxglove is widely distributed West of the Cascade mountain range. According to local Burke Herbarium webpage it is not native, being introduced from Eurasia. University of Michigan Ethnobotany records taken in 1936 indicate the flowers were used as ceremonial decorations by the Hoh & Quileute tribes. I have found and photographed 2 varieties growing within a few feet of one-another in SW Washington. At least one of the blooms harbored a small white Flower Crab Spider lying in wait for a meal. I do not propagate Foxglove and remove them when I find them in the wild. Digitalis purpurea June 28, 2009 Digitalis purpurea alba June 28, 2009

Triumph!

Actually the OP article said: Here's a set of inundation maps for Oregon. YRMV >>DOGAMI Tsunami Inundation Map (TIM) Series

I live across the Columbia from Portland, roughly 70 miles from the coast and about 50 miles from the volcanoes Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, and Mt. Adams. Since these are subduction volcanoes I would think the released stresses of the 'big one' would make their eruptions, in the short term, less likely. As to Phi's question about how far inland the tsunami will reach I think it will vary depending on specifics of terrain and the angle of the wave front(s). I don't recall seeing projections for how far up the Columbia it will go, but I imagine it will surely reach Bonneville dam by some degree. Forewarned is for-armed. >> Earthquake Readiness

In short, no. As you seem to imply, it's not a matter of proof at all but rather a matter of definition. The History of the Primality of One: A Selection of Sources @ Journal of Integer Sequences

To be or not to be; that is the question. ~The Bard There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories comes afterwards. ~ Albert Camas Source

Populations vary by region, but here in Washington neither bear or cougar are 'threatened'. Were they, there would be no hunting allowed. This page estimates the cougar population in the western half of my state at 2000 to 2500 animals. >> Living with Wildlife: Cougars (Mountain Lions) Statewide, black bears range from 25000 to 30000 animals. >> Living with Wildlife: Black Bears Similar to your area, animals of either species that become a nuisance in urban areas are first tranquilized if possible and relocated. Repeat offenders are euthanized.

Deer here have the habit of running across the road in front of vehicles with no warning, often at night. The only trouble a driver is in with authorities is if they keep the carcass and don't turn it over.