pt. 1. Tremors and ripples
Mexico City : preview of coming events
Lessons from the rubble : a front-page story
The Alaska megathrust : Cascadia's northern cousin
Against the wind of convention : Plafker, Benioff, and Press
Cauldron and crust : the rehabilitation of continental drift
Nuke on a fault : early clues in Humboldt Bay
Proving the doubters wrong : the Chile connection
Mount St. Helens : Cascadia's smoking gun?
pt. 2. Setbacks and breakthroughs
Mud cores and lasers : the search for evidence
The whoops factor : Cascadia's true nature revealed
Quake hunters : finding Cascadia's ghost forest
Cedars, peat, and turbidites : a tipping point at Monmouth
Cascadia's segmented past : apocalypse or decades of terror?
Digital water : catching waves in a computer
Defining the zone : hot rocks and high water
Cracks, missing rings, and native voices : closing in on a killer quake
The orphan tsunami : final proof of Cascadia's last rupture
Episodic tremor and slip : tracking Cascadia with GPS
Turbidite timeline : Cascadia's long and violent history
When's this going to happen? : the problems with prediction
pt. 3. Shockwaves
Facing reality : Cascadia equals Sumatra
The next wave : thinking the unthinkable
Watching it happen, wishing it wouldn't
Cascadia's fault : day of reckoning
Epilogue: Survival and resilience, a state of mind