The Puget Sound region is built on two prominent fault lines — the Seattle and Tacoma Faults. Damage to the Washington Federal Savings building in Olympia following the 2001 Nisqually earthquake.

Washington is home to dozens of active faults and fault zones, including beneath major cities like Seattle and Tacoma, leading to occasional earthquakes. While these quakes may not be as powerful ...

Dozens of active faults and fault zones lie beneath Washington, including under major cities like Seattle and Tacoma, which leads to earthquakes happening occasionally. READ MORE: Chase Bank to ...

S. Geological Survey work, among others. The Seattle Fault (and the related Tacoma Fault) is not the only source of earthquake hazard in the Puget Lowland. Other faults in the near surface ...

Seattle Fault Zone. Toe Jam Hill Fault. Tacoma Fault. Devils Mountain Fault. Strawberry Point Fault. Utsalady Point Fault. Southern Whidbey Island Fault Zone. What do these Washington state faults ...

A quake on a shallow fault — such as the Seattle Fault, the Tacoma Fault or the Southern Whidbey Island Fault — will shake much harder than any modern quakes in the Puget Sound area.

The city of Tacoma wouldn’t have power for quite some ... or the Cascadia subduction zone, fault. “That plate-boundary fault is normally locked, and stresses build up, and then when it lets ...