Tsunami waves from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake on the Seattle Fault would only take minutes to reach the greater Seattle area, according to a study released in 2022. The Washington State Department ...

Washington has dozens of active faults and fault zones, including under major cities like Seattle and Tacoma, and urban centers in Snohomish County. “The earthquakes might be smaller ...

Two SHIPS seismic reflection lines crossed the Seattle fault zone, which comprises a number of individual fault splays, line PS-1 in the west and line PS-2 in the east close to downtown Seattle (Fig 1 ...

Tobin noted numerous fault lines, including the Seattle Fault, the Southern Whidbey Island Fault and the Tacoma Fault, crisscross the region. “Our region is crisscrossed by many of these fault ...

Then, stories are made about the things that happen.” One of the most significant was an earthquake on the Seattle Fault that took place around AD 900–950. According to the Washington State ...