00:00What if a 1-0-0-0-0-foot wave hit the U.S. coastline,
00:04and we only had minutes to escape?
00:07Scientists now warn this nightmare scenario isn't science fiction.
00:10It's a real and rising threat.
00:12It starts beneath the Pacific, at the Cascadia subduction zone,
00:16one of the most dangerous fault lines on Earth.
00:19Stretching from California to Canada,
00:21this hidden giant hasn't ruptured since the year 1700.
00:24When it does, it could unleash an earthquake over magnitude 8.
00:28And moments later, a megatsunami.
00:30New research shows the odds of this happening in the next 50 years are around 15%.
00:36That may sound small, but the cost could be enormous.
00:39Entire towns in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California
00:43sit just feet above sea level.
00:45Some could sink instantly during a quake.
00:47And with little warning,
00:49walls of water taller than skyscrapers could crash inland.
00:52Over 30,000 lives at risk.
00:54More than $80 billion in damage.
00:57And yet, many of the flood zones at risk aren't even marked as dangerous.
01:01Experts say early warning systems and evacuation routes are not ready.
01:05And time to act is running out.
01:07Because the question isn't if the wave is coming.
01:09It's when.
01:11people instead of seeing the wave.
01:12At the journey far.
01:13There may be people seeing clear holes.
01:14I can't limit themmorologist.
01:15I'll explain that.
01:16Because of the sky.
01:17There.
01:18The rain is colours.
01:19I saw a big line of gorritics and acne.
01:20After the crossing.
01:21They are in the homemade명 of nobody.
01:22They have to come from the David bloggers.
01:23The versucht toチェーンure.
01:24How to turn off on a 여름 map.
01:25And now.
01:26Better to get off before the island.
01:27It's not my sorعت conservator.
01:28I took them with a woman.
01:29I take the übrigens comes to the Westminster Enlightenment.
01:30I can do 돼.
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