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Caption Map shows the Cascadia Subduction Zone along the Pacific Northwest coast, with a shaded area encompassing the onshore and offshore areas where seismometers were located. Data from the ...
To map the 700-mile zone ... when “the big one” strikes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. “We’re looking at big tsunamis, lots ...
Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several large US cities in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone ...
This area, called the Cascadia Subduction ... shaking both seabed and land, and generating tsunamis 100 feet high or more. Such a fault off Japan caused the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – With a massive Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake looming in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill to help build an earthquake-ready Columbia ...
1. Figure 1: Map of the northern Cascadia subduction zone showing the distribution of earthquakes in the subducting Juan de Fuca plate and the locations of seismic cross-sections. Green dashed line ...