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Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults ...
Scientists are warning that a 100-foot, Doomsday-style mega tsunami is primed to hit the US West Coast at any moment – and ...
A so-called "doomsday tsunami" is likely to hit the United States in the near future, but scientists now say there is a ...
A 700-mile fault could snap by 2075, sinking parts of Portland, Seattle & SF. The Cascadia megaquake may trigger a 100-ft ...
When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward shore.
The big one about “The Big One” hit 10 years ago. On July 13, 2015, The New Yorker shook us up with “The Really Big One,” ...
The fault means business. Some of the world’s largest earthquakes and tsunamis have originated from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 1,127-kilometer (700-mile) stretch that runs from northern ...
The death toll from a full rupture of the Cascadia Subduction Zone could reach 10,000, with roughly half of those caused by the tsunami. But there are some people working to bring that number down ...
Sub-seafloor map of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, showing depth of the fault between the eastward-moving Juan de Fuca place and the North American plate. ... As for tsunami hazard, ...
It is one of the most comprehensive examinations of this section of the Cascadia subduction zone and has implications for both ground-shaking and tsunami generation when future earthquakes occur ...
New Cascadia Subduction Zone research suggests the tsunami risk for some coastal communities in the Pacific Northwest may not be quite as acute as originally thought. Ian McCluskey / OPB ...
The death toll from a full rupture of the Cascadia Subduction Zone could reach 10,000, with roughly half of those caused by the tsunami. But there are some people working to bring that number down ...