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The name "Cascadia" was first applied to the whole geologic region by Bates McKee in his 1972 geology textbook Cascadia; the geologic evolution of the Pacific Northwest. Later the name was adopted by David McCloskey, a Seattle University sociology professor, to describe it as a bioregion. McCloskey describes Cascadia as "a land of falling waters."
The Cascadia movement contains groups and organizations with a wide range of goals and strategies. Some groups, such as the Cascadian Bioregional Party, focus on the independence of the Cascadian bioregion [6] while others, such as the Cascadia Department of Bioregion, a 501(c)3 non-profit, seek to build a bioregionalist network as an alternative to the nation-state structure.
The region is sometimes referred to as Cascadia, which, depending on the borders, may or may not be the same thing as the Pacific Northwest. The region's largest metropolitan areas are Greater Seattle , Washington, with 4 million people; [ 2 ] Metro Vancouver , British Columbia, with 2.84 million people; [ 3 ] and Greater Portland , Oregon ...
Back in North America, in 1700, a 9.0 earthquake and monster tsunami rocked the Cascadia region, an area that stretches along what would become Western Washington, Oregon and northern California ...
Diego Melgar Moctezuma, associate professor of earth sciences at the University of Oregon and the director of the new Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center, poses in his office on Oct. 18, 2023.
Cascadia (region) or Pacific Northwest, a region of North America; Cascadia (bioregion), the environmental interactivity of the Pacific Northwest of North America; Cascadia movement, a bioregional movement based within the Cascadia bioregion of the Pacific Northwest of North America; Cascadia subduction zone, a convergent plate boundary that ...
The University of Oregon's earthquake research center will bring together 16 institutions to research earthquakes and the Cascadia subduction zone.
Another notable intraslab earthquake in the Puget Sound region was the magnitude 6.8 2001 Nisqually earthquake. Intraslab earthquakes in Cascadia occur in areas where the subducting plate has high curvature. [13] Much of the seismicity that occurs off the coast of northern California is due to intraplate deformation within the Gorda plate.