Cascadia's four segments make it more dangerous than other major fault lines because they have different rock and sediment, ...
The rest are from the tsunami that would inevitably follow, inundating low-lying areas on the Oregon Coast. “The tsunami is ...
Oregon, and Washington. But surprisingly, no one knew about the fault line until 45 years ago, Kathryn Schulz describes in her expansive article for The New Yorker. "The discovery of the Cascadia ...
Meigs says Central Oregon will feel little if an earthquake strikes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the fault line beginning from northern California and extending to southern British Columbia.
The tremor occurred in the Blanco Fracture Zone (BFZ), deemed more active than California's San Andreas Fault ... miles west of Oregon and roughly 200 miles farther west of the Cascadia Subduction ...
The quake struck on the San Andreas fault, which runs along the coast line. In Oregon, areas impacted for ... earthquake — is imminent from the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast.