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New evidence suggests current estimates about tsunami size and how quickly waves make it to shore may be too high and too ...
A so-called "doomsday tsunami" is likely to hit the United States in the near future, but scientists now say there is a ...
The last time this Cascadia subduction zone shook off a major earthquake was in 1700. Since then, the coastline has been rising by 0.04 to 0.12 inch (1 to 3 millimeters) a year, slightly outpacing ...
But they can’t say exactly when the Pacific Northwest’s “Big One” could strike. The last great earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone occurred in January 1700, and big events are ...
When the Cascadia Subduction Zone ruptures, it is likely to create a massive earthquake that will be felt across the Pacific Northwest. But it will also create something just as dangerous.
The Pacific Northwest is being taken for a ride. At the Cascadia Subduction Zone—a 700-mile fault that runs all the way from California to British Columbia—two giant tectonic plates are locked ...
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a megathrust fault or the meeting of two tectonic plates. The Juan de Fuca plate is being forced under the North American plate at a convergent boundary.
The Pacific Northwest is ripe for a major earthquake ... New research shows, should a quake hit the Cascadia Subduction Zone with a magnitude of 8.0 or greater, sudden subsidence could occur.
When the Cascadia Subduction Zone ruptures, it is likely to create a massive earthquake that will be felt across the Pacific Northwest. But it will also create something just as dangerous.
When the Cascadia Subduction Zone ruptures, it is likely to create a massive earthquake that will be felt across the Pacific Northwest. But it will also create something just as dangerous.