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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)
U.S. Geological Survey (2009), A magnitude 7.1 earthquake scenario for the Tacoma Fault Zone, Pierce County, Washington (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19
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 ...
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.
Up the coast, Washington has hazard maps made for multiple tsunami scenarios. The metropolitan city of Seattle — home to more than 730,000 — is at risk in both a Seattle Fault earthquake ...
A 2021 map shows the impact of a tsunami hitting the San Fransisco area - and the devastation it could cause. The map was thrust back into the spotlight Thursday when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake ...
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 lists.
Multiple earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 and higher struck off the west coast in the Pacific Ocean in the early morning hours of Friday, Oct. 18., according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Center.