Scientists have outlined their alarmingly unhelpful tips on how to survive the earthquake that will hit the Pacific Northwest. The killer quake along Cascadia, a fault line which runs from Cape Mendocino, California, to Vancouver Island, Canada, is 72 years overdue, according to peer-reviewed studies. When - not if - it arrives, sending a 200-foot-tall tsunami over the region, it is unlikely the people of coastal Oregon, Washington and California will be able to escape.