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To: LibertarianLiz

Yes, but it’s a different kind of fault zone - strike-slip, which means it’s a transform plate boundary, where the plates grind past each other, not a a convergent plate boundary, where they smash into one another. Those seems to produce the most devastating earthquakes. The real story is up in the Puget Sound area where a very small plate is subducting under the North American one...it’s only a matter of time before they get one like Japan.


27 posted on 03/13/2011 3:50:29 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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To: americanophile

I live in the Seattle area and am aware that we are past due for the “big one”. Washington’s coast is also a prime target for tsunami.


31 posted on 03/13/2011 3:56:41 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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