Hannah Chin
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696 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 17 Aug
Hannah Chin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When we talk about it, we call it the big one.
This is the opposite of chill.
It is the opposite of chill.
So I called up a seismologist.
His name's Diego Melgar, and he's the director of Crescent.
the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center.
And I asked him, like, what would an earthquake this big feel like?
Scientists say this earthquake, it'll demolish buildings, rupture utility lines, liquefy soil.
But Emily, even though we know so much about how this earthquake could affect us, we still know very, very little about when it's going to happen.
We don't know when?
We can't predict it at all.
One scientist I talked to, his name is Chris Goldfinger, and he's a marine geologist and paleoseismologist at Oregon State University.
He said they don't even use that word.
We don't do that in earthquake science.
And listening to this, Emily, I was like, why is that, right?
Why do we know so many concrete details about certain parts of this looming disaster and then zero details about this other seemingly really crucial part of when is it going to happen?
That's a great question.
So first, there's geologic clues of past earthquakes in the landscape.
There's what we call ghost forests, these thousand-year-old trees on the Oregon and Washington coast that seem to have been submerged in seawater really quickly.
And then in other places, you can find sand deposits in the soil that must have come from big earthquakes.
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