This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move against each ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

Figure 1: Slip along the plate boundary fault of a subduction zone. Although a recent analysis of NVT in Cascadia supports its origin at the plate boundary interface, (K. Creager, Univ.

Washington hasn’t seen a major earthquake since the 6.8 magnitude Nisqually earthquake in 2001. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, ...

The Cascadia subduction zone fault could kill thousands and render ... of volcanoes and faults that surround the Pacific Ocean plate: The next step was to figure out if Cascadia was ever active.

By Brian Brown, president and partner at food marketing agency Ingredient  For those living on the West Coast of North ...

Karen Andreika arrived in Depoe Bay, Oregon, from Northern California a decade ago just as The New Yorker published an article about Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes and the likelihood of a ...

Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and less dense sections of plate are pulled along behind.