>>Hah! I'm not afraid of earthquakes or tsnunamis! <g>
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>>But, that's because I live on the east side of the Cascade mountains (100 miles from Seattle)... I'd barely feel an earthquake over here and also wouldn't have to worry about tsunamis.
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>Yeah, seems me to Yellowstone is a much bigger risk for you guys.

Yellowstone is about 500 miles, as the crow flies, from Ellensburg. I've read articles about Yellowstone's super volcano potential, spewing "a cloud of plant-killing ash would fan out and dump a layer 10ft deep up to 1,000 miles away". However, we wouldn't be downwind, so we'd most likely get nothing blown our way. I would also think that, being 500 miles away, earthquakes wouldn't be too bad either. We'd probably be ok ...

~~Bonnie