New research, led by the University of Washington, reveals new information about the Cascadia Subduction Zone will force a change in how we plan for the "Big One".
Thousands of residents will be impacted, and hundreds of miles of coastline will be permanently underwater when the next “Big One” happens off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. Study suggests it could happen before the year 2100.
Copalis Beach is a quiet fishing town and is famous for solving a 323-year-old mystery – a mystery which is explained in detail in the Netflix series, ‘Earthstorm’ - a warning that the Pacific Northwest is due for another massive earthquake.
The seismic assessment, which was done as a part of the military branch's Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP), identified issues associated with the potential of a large scale earthquake
what's most interesting about this is the quake occurred well out in the ocean, but not necessarily 'in' the Cascadia Subfault, which is a huge rift that runs from CA up past WA.