When the fault — or even a portion of it — next ... localized look at risks to communities along the Pacific Northwest coast ...
Unlike the Pacific Northwest’s steep-sloped Cascade volcanoes ... is too far away from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 600-mile fault that runs from California to British Columbia about 70 ...
The Pacific Northwest is at risk for a mega-earthquake ... The risk comes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is a fault line that spans approximately 600 miles from southern British Columbia ...
The Pacific Northwest typically experiences three types of earthquakes: Shallow fault quakes: Ruptures in faults located in the upper 18 miles of the Earth's crust. These earthquakes typically ...