Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Forget San Andreas.
The Cascadia subduction zone is the scariest fault line you may have never heard of.
A recent New Yorker piece about a very big earthquake that Cascadia could cause is making its rounds of the Internet, and terrifying readers.
Host A Martinez spoke with Caltech seismologist Dr. Jen Andrews about the Cascadia subduction zone. Host Alex Cohen also talked to Ashley Gross, KPLU's business and labor reporter, about how she and other Seattleites are reacting to the New Yorker article.
Click on the blue player to listen to the interviews.