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Scientists capture Cascadia subduction zone tearing apart

Scientists have, for the first time, observed the Cascadia subduction zone off Vancouver Island actively breaking apart.

The Earth is tearing itself apart near Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest

Subduction zones can look permanent on a map. They run for hundreds or thousands of miles, haul oceanic crust into the mantle ...
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Earth is splitting open beneath the Pacific Northwest, scientists say

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...
Science Daily

The “big one” might not come alone: Double West Coast earthquake threat

Two of the most dangerous fault systems on the U.S. West Coast may be more connected than scientists once thought. New ...
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Scientists warn 1,000-foot wave risk on West Coast—Cascadia Fault 326 years overdue

Scientists warn that the Cascadia Subduction Zone — a 700-mile fault system running from Northern California to British ...
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Fluid in the Cascadia Subduction Zone could impact how the region responds to a massive quake, UW finds

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Cascadia Subduction Zone is “unusually quiet,” for a megathrust fault, making it more difficult for scientists to understand its behavior and structure. With help from ...
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West Coast's two monster faults could trigger back-to-back earthquakes, new research suggests

Workers check damage to Interstate 880 in Oakland after it collapsed during the Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989. (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press) They are two of the West Coast's most ...
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The Cascadia Subduction Zone isn't shutting down—but it's more complicated than previously thought

Recent seismic imaging off Vancouver Island has revealed something extraordinary: a tear in the subducting oceanic plate beneath the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The finding briefly raised the public's ...
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Cascadia Megaquake Could Trigger Earthquake On The San Andreas Fault

The Carrizo Plain in eastern San Luis Obispo County contains the most strikingly graphic portion of the San Andreas Fault. Sediment cores recovered from the Pacific seafloor suggest that megathrust ...