Coming to Seattle, circa the year 2200.Continuing this week’s Armageddon theme, a new study suggests that the earthquake everyone expects to hit the Puget Sound region will actually be much more devastating than first thought. It’s not enough that Boeing is ditching us or that the Alaskan Way Viaduct will soon look like that Pirates of the Caribbean show at Disney World. Now we’re all gonna die.The gist of the study is this: The Cascadia fault, one of the biggest on Earth, will one day rupture. That we knew. That we’ve been prepared for. What we aren’t prepared for is that the Olympic Peninsula, originally thought of as a natural barrier 60 miles off the coast, won’t actually do anything to stop the resulting quake. In short, we’re screwed.According to Discovery News, researchers at Central Washington have determined that a tectonic shift in Cascadia could send a “shotgun blast” of energy into greater Seattle. The resulting shakes might be stronger than anyone has planned for and “everything from small buildings to skyscrapers would be at risk of collapse.”But hold on everybody. Not all the news is bad news. Discovery just buried the lede.As it turns out, Cascadia only ruptures once every 550 years. And since the last big quake occurred back in the 18th-century it’s unlikely we’ll see one in our lifetimes. So it’s a win-lose: We win, our great, great grand-kids lose. Everyone goes home happy.