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Underwater fault line could cause a major earthquake on the West Coast

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By Nikki Main Science Reporter for Dailymail.Com 8:57 PM June 10, 2024, updated 9:04 PM June 10, 2024 An underwater fault line along America’s west coast could trigger a megaquake that would be more devastating than California’s ‘Big One’, a new study suggests. Using underwater mapping techniques, scientists have mapped the Cascadia Subduction Zone – … Read more

Major fault line off the west coast could trigger a catastrophic magnitude 9 earthquake, research shows – and it’s due to a blow

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The Cascadia Subduction Zone extends along a 600-mile stretch of the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of southern Canada, Washington, Oregon and northern California. If it erupts, it could cause a magnitude 9 earthquake to hit the region. The darker areas mark the region that would suffer the most damage and extend inland where the devastation would be more moderate

An underwater fault line along America’s west coast could trigger a megaquake that would be more devastating than California’s ‘Big One’, a new study suggests. Using underwater mapping techniques, scientists have mapped the Cascadia Subduction Zone – a 600-mile-long fault line stretching from southern Canada to Northern California – in unprecedented detail. It has been … Read more

‘The big one’: Researchers get the clearest picture yet of the fault threatening the Pacific Northwest

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A silent colossus lurks off the Pacific coast, threatening hundreds of miles of coastline with tsunamis and devastating earthquakes. For decades, scientists have warned about the potential of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a megathrust fault that runs offshore along the coast from northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino, California. When the fault – or even … Read more

Researchers are getting the clearest picture yet of the fault threatening the Pacific Northwest

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A silent colossus lurks off the Pacific coast, threatening hundreds of miles of coastline with tsunamis and devastating earthquakes. For decades, scientists have warned about the potential of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a megathrust fault that runs offshore along the coast from northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino, California. When the fault – or even … Read more