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Powerful Cascadia quake could trigger near-instant flood risk: report
A recent study found that a powerful quake off the Pacific Northwest could force the ground to sink up to 2 m, leading to ...
Monster earthquake could sink swath of California, dramatically heightening flood risk, study says
A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...
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'The Big One' could rock the Pacific Northwest and fuel sea-level rise and massive flooding
The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, ...
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Powerful Cascadia quake could trigger near-instant flood risk: report
The Cascadia subduction zone is an offshore boundary that stretches ... The study pointed out that current tsunami hazard maps don’t take into account future sea-level rise; a relatively small ...
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Canada-Wide Snapshot of Earth's Crust Reveals How the North American Continent Developed: UBC, Lithoprobe Research
A sweeping synthesis of two decades worth of data from Canada's major earth sciences project has yielded an unprecedented geological map of North America that ... starting at the Cascadia subduction ...
New study shows how massive Cascadia subduction zone earthquake would completely remake the Pacific coastline
New research shows that in minutes after the earthquake hits, coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington could drop ...