Jerry Thompson is an award–winning documentary filmmaker living outside of Vancouver. For twenty years, he worked as a as a network news correspondent and a documentary film producer for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has written articles for Equinox and Vancouver magazine, and has produced and narrated a half–dozen highly regarded television documentary specials on Cascadia's fault that received wide critical praise.
"In Cascadia's Fault, [Thompson is] primarily telling a detective
story of sorts, about how scientists uncovered the subduction zone.
If you've been listening to the subduction zone warnings and want
to know more about the basis for them, Thompson's book delivers
that knowledge . . . [the] narrative is essentially a fairly calm .
. . painstaking tale of scientific knowledge that's much like the
patient work of the seismologists and geologists who discovered the
subduction zone."
—The Seattle Sunbreak
"Part detective story, part memoir and part popular science, the
narrative is crafted as a thriller . . . Thompson excels when he
explains the science."
—The Vancouver Sun
"Reporter Jerry Thompson puts the history of subduction earthquakes
and the resultant tsunamis into clear perspective. In Cascadia's
Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North
America, Thompson has written a very readable tale of how plate
tectonics and earthquake science works, and what we need to know if
we insist on being Left Coasters."
—Sacramento News & Review
"A level–headed look at a potentially devastating natural disaster
. . . fascinating."
—Booklist
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