The Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has all the ingredients for
making powerful earthquakes — and according to the geological record, the region is due for its next «big one.»
One of Japan's most prominent photographers, Naoya Hatakeyama is known for austere and beautiful large - scale pictures that capture the extraordinary forces we deploy to shape nature to our will — and, in photographs
made after the 2011 Tohoku
earthquake and tsunami, the equally
powerful impact of natural forces on human construction.