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Located 100-200 kilometres off the Pacific coast of North America, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is a convergent (tectonic) plate boundary capable of producing 9.0+ magnitude earthquakes and tsunamis ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a massive fault line running from northern California through Oregon and Washington, and all the way to British Columbia. It's where the oceanic Juan de Fuca Plate ...

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A “great earthquake,” with a magnitude higher than 8.0, has not happened along the Cascadia subduction zone since January 26, 1700, when a magnitude 9 quake struck the region.

The average for the Cascadia subduction zone is between 500 and 600 years, he said. The Pacific Northwest has now gone 325 years without a massive earthquake.

Running offshore from northern California to British Columbia, the Cascadia subduction zone marks the boundary where the Juan de Fuca plate dives under the North American plate. It’s also ...