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Damaging earthquakes are well known in the Pacific Northwest, including several larger than magnitude 7, most notably the M9 1700 Cascadia earthquake and the M7.0–7.3 earthquake in about 900AD on the Seattle Fault. The M6.5 1965 Puget Sound earthquake shook the Seattle, Washington, area, causing substantial damage and seven deaths. This event ...
What would a 9.0 earthquake mean for the area? Big One-related research efforts made national headlines this summer, including in The Washington Post.NBC News recently reported that between the ...
Earthquake prediction is an immature science – it has not yet led to a successful prediction of an earthquake from first physical principles. Research into methods of prediction therefore focus on empirical analysis, with two general approaches: either identifying distinctive precursors to earthquakes, or identifying some kind of geophysical ...
Puget Sound: VI: Tsunami [5] 1872-12-15: North Cascades: VIII: 6.5–7.0: scientific interest: 1700-01-26: Cascadia subduction zone: 8.7–9.2 M w Tsunami: Note: The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand-alone articles. The principles described also apply to ...
French prognosticator Nostradamus predicted an epic earthquake would rock the earth on Thursday, but the world appears to have escaped relatively unscathed. Approximately 500 years ago ...
Extrapolation from the Parkfield earthquakes of 1857, 1881, 1901, 1922, 1934, and 1966 led to a forecast of an earthquake around 1988, or before 1993 at the latest (at the 95% confidence interval), based on the characteristic earthquake model. [12] Instrumentation was put in place in hopes of detecting precursors of the anticipated earthquake.
The National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council (NEPEC) provides advice and recommendations to the director of the United States Geological Survey on earthquake predictions and related scientific research. It was created in 1980 by authority of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977.
Scenario for a Magnitude 6.7 Earthquake on the Seattle Fault Vivid and comprehensive. Washington State's Bridge Seismic Retrofit Program; Earthquake Study: Four Vashon-Specific Scenarios Considerations for all islands. Puget Sound Tsunami Inundation Modeling (NOAA) Elliott Bay inundation map (DNR) Tsunami Hazard Map of the Elliott Bay Area (NOAA)