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Jun 7, 2024 · A fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a major earthquake and tsunami. Researchers mapped it comprehensively for the first time.
Feb 5, 2016 · The WVF can generate a large earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 or commonly known as “The Big One” which poses threat to people, livelihood, buildings and infrastructures. DOST-PHIVOLCS studies and researches on these fault system resulted in a collection of maps called the Valley Fault System (VFS) Atlas.
1 day ago · The Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-PHIVOLCS) reminds the public that any active faults that have not generated any historical surface-rupturing events have higher potential to generate a large earthquake also known as “The Big One”, which can significantly affect ...
Jun 7, 2024 · Each was the result of the Cascadia subduction zone, a ~600-mile-long fault line running from southern British Columbia to Northern California. Along the fault, the small oceanic Juan de Fuca...
Dec 26, 2023 · Using data from these rocks, researchers found that the ground will likely shake up to 65% less aggressively than current official hazard models for the Big One suggest, according to the...
Jul 13, 2015 · For the San Andreas, one of the most extensively studied and best understood fault lines in the world, that upper limit is roughly an 8.2—a powerful earthquake, but, because the Richter scale...
Aug 5, 2018 · It’s home to the Cascadia megathrust fault that runs 600 miles from Northern California up to Vancouver Island in Canada, spanning several major metropolitan areas including Seattle and...
