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I recently drove by Quake Lake several times earlier this month, while attending the FFF Fly Fishing Fair in West Yellowstone. Between the destruction seen at Quake Lake and the land upheavals seen at Hebgen Lake, not to mention the huge scar where the mountain slid down and killed so many, it really makes you wonder just how safe is the ground we walk on. Naturally, being at West Yellowstone, means you are near the center of one of the most active Super Volcanoes on earth, that alone makes one contemplate being there.

One of the features that the FFF offers during their Fly Fishing Fair is an authors booth. I was walking by the booth one day and Douglas W. Huigen was there. He has published a book called: CATACLYSM: When Human Stories Meet Earth's Faults. This book is about survivor stories and the geology of the 7.5 Hebgen Lake earthquake and rockslide near Yellowstone, on August 17, 1959.

The book makes for an interesting read.

Larry ---sagefisher---