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“On the face of it, earthquakes seem to present us with problems of space: the way we live along fault lines, in brick buildings, in homes made valuable by their proximity to the sea. But, covertly, they also present us with problems of time.” The peerless Kathryn Schulz has a beautiful, terrifying piece in the New Yorker about the really big onethe really big onethe really big one—an earthquake that will, at some point, destroy a sizable chunk of coastal Northwest America. (And here’s a follow-up from Eric Holthaus at Slate.)

Nine years ago, we threw a