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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The app began providing earthquake alerts in Oregon on March 11, 2021 [44] and in Washington state on January 26, 2022. [45] MyShake only delivers alerts for earthquakes exceeding M W 4.5 and that will produce a shaking intensity greater than three. [43]
The chances for a 6.0 magnitude or greater earthquake to occur along the Seattle Fault within the next 30 years is 80-85%, according to one seismologist.
The 2015 Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, Version 3, or UCERF3, is the latest official earthquake rupture forecast (ERF) for the state of California, superseding UCERF2. It provides authoritative estimates of the likelihood and severity of potentially damaging earthquake ruptures in the long- and near-term.
These reports looked at the timing of abrupt uplift and subsidence around Restoration Point and Alki Point (distant right side of picture), [2] tsunami deposits on Puget Sound, [3] turbidity in lake paleosediments, [4] rock avalanches, [5] and multiple landslides around Lake Washington, [6] and determined that all these happened about 1,100 ...
According to Puget Sound Energy, which serves approximately 1.2 million electric and over 900,000 natural gas customers in the Puget Sound area, as of 11:59 p.m. local time Wednesday, they have ...