Yes; we are doomed. Those who die in the first quake will be the lucky ones, because everything that comes after will be worse. My daughter in Seattle will probably be killed when the century-old brick building she works in 'pancakes' as all the floors shake loose from the walls and collapse. If my bookcases don't get me, the tsunami will, as it destroys my entire town along with every other town on the Olympic Peninsula.

Nobody's doing much to prepare for it because nobody really believes that any amount of preparation will do a bit of good. It'd be like trying to 'prepare' for the destruction of Pompeii, right? The only way to prepare for a disaster of that magnitude is to move away before it happens, and we aren't going to do that.

"Hail, Atlantis."