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The last megathrust earthquake to strike Canada was in 1700, and the clock is ticking. How we’re preparing for the impact. Kate Moran sleeps with a pair of shoes and a flashlight by her bed in ...
The last big, “megathrust” earthquake in the region, along the 600-mile-long Cascadia Subduction Zone, was in 1700. Experts say the likelihood in the next 50 years of a “megathrust” on the ...
On January 26, 1700 at 9 p.m., the fault that locks the ocean floor to the North American Plate slipped, and caused an earthquake so big it created a tsunami on the west side of the Pacific Ocean ...
When that energy is released, an earthquake occurs. A big one. Scientists have figured out that the Cascadia subduction zone experiences these “megathrust” earthquakes anywhere from every 200 to 800 ...
Late last month, a 4.4 magnitude earthquake shook the town of Fox Creek, ... Canada May Have Just Set A Fracking Earthquake World Record ... “It felt like a big gust of wind hit the house.
Oregonians have worried about earthquakes for years. But ever since publication of "The Really Big One," Kathryn Schulz's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 report about the long-overdue Cascadia ...
Thousands of people were shaken awake last night across the B.C. South Coast during a magnitude 4.8 earthquake that struck at 11:39 pm PT just 19 kilometres north-northeast of Victoria. For many ...
If you didn't feel the big East Coast earthquake of August 2011, you may have felt some of the smaller tremors that have occurred in New Jersey during the past five years.
The Pacific Northwest is at risk for a mega-earthquake because of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The region is primed for powerful quakes, with a particularly strong one called the Big One ...
The last big, “megathrust” earthquake in the region, along the 600-mile-long Cascadia Subduction Zone, was in 1700. Experts say the likelihood in the next 50 years of a “megathrust” on the ...