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Experts are sounding the alarm about a potential mega-earthquake that could rock the US Pacific Northwest — and it may be ...
Could a monster earthquake sink a portion of Northern California? A new study calculates the risk of where and how much land could sink, but experts say there's something else closer to home that we ...
A new study has identified three states in the US could be hit by an earthquake and mega-tsunami in a handful of years.
Researchers found that a potential powerful earthquake combined with rising sea levels could lead to a mega tsunami.
An earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could cause parts of the coast to sink several feet, creating ongoing flooding risks in previously safe areas.
There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the ...
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault that stretches around 600 miles from Northern California to British Columbia. Most earthquakes that strike this area go unnoticed because it is located 70 to ...
(Oregon Department of Transportation/Flickr) If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread ...
If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread flooding from rising seas that follows will take ...
If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread flooding from rising seas that follows will ...
The Cascadia subduction zone is an ... pointed out that current tsunami hazard maps don’t take into account future sea-level rise; a relatively small earthquake could generate a tsunami with ...
A major West Coast earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone could have an unexpected and destructive ... The study pointed out that current tsunami hazard maps don’t take into account future ...