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Here's how long it would take Tsunami waves to reach Seattle after an earthquake
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 ...
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WA is seeing a string of earthquakes. Here’s how experts say you should stay prepared
“There are several fault lines that pass under Seattle, and of course, then we have the Cascadia Subduction Zone out along the coast. So what’s interesting is that we always talk about ‘the ...
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Crustal Faults
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 ...
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Impossible to predict and inevitable in our future: tracking Washington’s earthquake risk
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 ...
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Are all these earthquakes the percursor to “the big one?”
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 ...
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TONIGHT AT 5:30: How Native American myths helped scientists track earthquakes
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 ...