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2006 Kuril Islands earthquake and tsunami – magnitude 8.3 earthquake, no injuries or fatalities anywhere; 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami – magnitude 8.0 earthquake with an epicenter 120 miles (190 km) southwest of American Samoa generated tsunami waves up to 16 feet (5 m), killing 34 people in American Samoa and causing extensive damage [39]
The majority of interplate earthquakes, or earthquakes that occur near the boundaries of tectonic plates, near the Cascadia subduction zone occur in the forearc of the overriding North American plate in Washington, west of the Cascade Volcanic Arc and east of where tremor occurs. [13]
The earthquake caused a tsunami which struck the west coast of North America and the coast of Japan. [3] Japanese tsunami records, along with reconstructions of the wave moving across the ocean, put the earthquake at about 9:00 PM Pacific Time on the evening of 26 January 1700. [4]
A fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a major earthquake and tsunami. Researchers mapped it comprehensively for the first time.
California residents felt the impact of a major earthquake that occurred off the West Coast on Thursday. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred off the coast ...
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of northern California The tremor was located just over 60 miles west-southwest of Ferndale More than 5.3 million Californians were under a tsunami ...
During the last 66 million years, nearly the entire west coast of North America has been dominated by a subduction zone, with the Farallon plate subducting beneath the North American plate. Presently, the Juan de Fuca plate (with its Explorer and Gorda satellite plates) and the Rivera and Cocos plates are the only remnants of the once much ...
The earthquake was first registered as having a preliminary magnitude of 6.6, but USGS updated it to 7.0. It appears to have an epicenter at the triple junction of the Pacific, North American and ...