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(KOIN) – A new study mapping the Cascadia Subduction ... posing a higher risk for major quakes. “Based on other studies of ...
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 ... American plate.
It's hard to know exactly when it will happen, but certainly, if you compare this to other subduction zones, it is quite late ...
A new report has revealed the 10 US cities that are most vulnerable ... lies within just eight miles of the Cascadia Subduction Zone: a megathrust fault where the Juan de Fuca plate slides ...
The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.
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 ...