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The epicenter was in the southern Puget Sound, northeast of Olympia, but the shock was felt in Oregon, British Columbia, eastern Washington, and Idaho. [6] This was the most recent of several large earthquakes that occurred in the Puget Sound region over a 52-year period and caused property damage valued at $1–4 billion.
According to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) statistics, 9,317 wildfires burned a total of 377,340 acres (152,700 hectares) in the US state of California in 2001. [1] The largest wildfire of the year in California was the Observation Fire in Lassen County, which burned 67,700 acres, and the most destructive was ...
A stretch of Washington State Route 302 near Allyn, Washington, damaged after the earthquake. A magnitude 6.0 struck Andreanof Islands, Alaska, on February 1 at a depth of 33.0 km (20.5 mi). [17] A magnitude 5.1 struck Gujarat, India, on February 8 at a depth of 10.0 km (6.2 mi). [18] It is an aftershock of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake ...
The LA wildfires across the state of California this week have taken the lives of 5 individuals and thousands displaced from their homes. These before and after pictures show the wildlife's ...
(DGER [9]) One model of the Seattle Uplift: Cross-section (south to north) along the east side of central Puget Sound, looking west. TB = Tacoma Basin EPZ = East Passage Zone (Maury Island), SFZ = Seattle Fault Zone (Alki Point). Grey dots are hypocenters of earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more for 1970–2001. (Fig. 17D from Johnson & others 2004)
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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.
Before And After Images Show The Extent Of Wildfire Damage Around Los Angeles Firefighters work to put out a fire that broke out at the Altadena Golf Course Jan.09, 2025.