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Jerry Thompson



JERRY THOMPSON's first grand ambition was to become a bush pilot and to live the idyllic life of a hermit in Canada's north woods. By some bizarre twist of fate he became a journalist, documentary filmmaker and author instead.

Born in Arkansas and raised in South Carolina, he is a graduate of the University of Delaware. He has worked as a radio and television reporter in Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver and as a network news correspondent on assignments around the world.

He has covered everything from forestry and fishing to earthquakes and tsunamis. From geo-engineering the climate, to the ozone hole in Australia, to the struggling Sandinista government in Nicaragua, to ethnic civil war in Sri Lanka, and the chemical disaster in Bhopal. On No ...more

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“learned why those canyons and channels cutting across the flat surface of the ocean floor looked so much like a big river and its tributaries meandering across the prairies. It’s because that’s exactly what they are. This spidery web of channels is basically an extension of the Columbia River system across the sea floor—through the mud on top of the Juan de Fuca plate.”
― Jerry Thompson, Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
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“Bottom line: if you’re on a beach and the ground starts shaking—and especially if that shaking lasts more than one minute—it’s probably a subduction earthquake and there probably will be a tsunami. The shaking is all the warning you’re going to get.”
― Jerry Thompson, Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
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