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Titled “The Really Big One” in the July 20, 2015 print edition, it reads like the stuff of nightmares. In 2011, more than 18,000 people lost their lives amid a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ...
The most important clue linking the tsunami in Japan and the earthquake in the Pacific Northwest comes from studies of tree rings (dendrochronology), which show that several "ghost forests" of red cedar trees in Oregon and Washington, killed by lowering of coastal forests into the tidal zone by the earthquake, have outermost growth rings that formed in 1699, the last growing season before the ...
Many researchers have chased clues of the last “big one”: an 8.7-magnitude earthquake in 1700. They’ve pieced together the event’s history using centuries-old records of tsunamis, Native ...
For U.S. earthquake scientists, Japan's 'megaquake' warning renewed worries about when and how to warn the public if they find clues that the 'big one' might be coming for the West COast.
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"The really big one : an earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when". Annals of Seismology. The New Yorker. 91 (20): 52– 59. July 20, 2015. [a] How to Stay Safe When the Big One Comes (July 28, 2015). The New Yorker. The Moral Judgments of Henry David Thoreau (October 15, 2015). The New Yorker.
The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT) will be the first center of its kind in the nation focused on earthquakes at subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides beneath another.
These earthquakes are sometimes referred to as crustal earthquakes, and they are capable of causing significant damage due to their relatively shallow depths. A damaging magnitude 7 interplate earthquake occurred on the Seattle Fault around 900–930 CE [14] that generated 3 meters of uplift and a 4-5 meter tsunami. [15]