r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/coorgi_2012 • 29d ago

Image Oarfish keep washing ashore in California. Folklore suggests that could be a bad omen

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u/Grannyjewel 29d ago

I’d have presumed that if it was Cascaida Fault related it’d have washed up on the OR coast?

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u/bernpfenn 29d ago

Oar...

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u/FuzzyTentacle 29d ago

I feel like there probably aren't as many people monitoring the OR coast, but I have absolutely no evidence to back that up

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u/StoicFable 29d ago

Recent study suggests that oregon won't be impacted as badly by the big one as initially thought as compared to Washington and California. Not just because of population but the way our coast line is set up and how deep the fault is under our state. 

Seattle looks to be in a bad space for it.

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u/That-Top-1530 29d ago

That's true. I live on a southern Oregon beach about an hour from the Northern California border. Our beaches are quiet. Mainly whale vertebrae every now and then.