Morning Overview on MSN

The Cascadia fault is overdue for a magnitude-9 quake and tsunami

Off the Pacific Northwest coast, a roughly 700-mile-long fault runs beneath the seafloor from Vancouver Island to Northern ...
Morning Overview on MSN

The Cascadia fault is overdue for a quake that could devastate the Pacific Northwest

Off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, two slabs of the Earth’s crust are locked together and slowly straining. When they ...
KOIN 6

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 ...
Phys.org

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 ...
The Conversation

The Cascadia Subduction zone isn’t shutting down – but it’s more complicated than we 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 ...