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Long-term impacts of next Cascadia subduction zone earthquake could be even worse than feared
When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward shore. But that’s just the start of the expected horrors.
‘Big One’ coupled with rising ocean could leave many in Northwest living in flood zones, study finds
More than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the ...
Thousands in the Pacific Northwest face a heightened flood risk, not just from rising sea levels, but from the land itself ...
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When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five ...
This should have West Coasters shaking in their shoes.
An earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could cause parts of the coast to sink several feet, creating ongoing ...
Researchers conduct shallow sediment sampling in the Salmon River estuary in Oregon in 2023. They are using gouge corers and GPS surveying equipment to document stratigraphy and land-level changes ...
This map (left image) indicates the sites of the 24 estuaries along the coast in the Cascadia subduction zone where Tina Dura and her team took geological core samples. The photo on the right is of ...
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