Thanks Robert A Cook PE. Almost a catastrophism topic, so, why not? :^)
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Posted on 12/09/2019 9:15:28 AM PST by Red Badger
Provocative analysis of sea-floor cores suggests that quakes on the Cascadia fault off California can trigger tremors on the San Andreas.
Two of North America’s most fearsome earthquake zones could be linked.
A controversial study argues that at least eight times in the past 3,000 years, quakes made a one–two punch off the west coast of the United States. A quake hit the Cascadia fault off the coast of northern California, triggering a second quake on the San Andreas fault just to the south. In some cases, the delay between the quakes may have been decades long.
The study suggests that Cascadia, which scientists think is capable of unleashing a magnitude-9 earthquake at any time, could set off quakes on the northern San Andreas, which runs under the San Francisco Bay Area.
Several earthquake scientists told Nature that more work is needed to confirm the provocative idea. Researchers have long considered the two faults seismically separate.
Chris Goldfinger, a geologist and palaeoseismologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, will present the findings on 13 December at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. “This is mostly a circumstantial case,” he says. “I don’t have a smoking gun.”
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I see what you did there.....................
Thank you he said bowing modestly. :)
When faults unite!!!
I have decided I don’t need to store any more emergency dog food since I have decided to eat the dog first at any sign of trouble.
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Need lots of rice and soy sauce..................
Misery loves company.................
Does that mean we can flush the entire West Coast at once?
My dream has come true!
I think I read about that in the 1950s.
In 1700, an earthquake with an intensity of about nine on the Richter scale shook what is now the coast of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. It generated a tidal wave that struck Japan. There were no white people in the area at the time, but according to oral tradition among local Indian tribes, the tidal wave apparently wiped out several Indian communities.
Dislexysick faults untie.
Seattle will likely survive a quake on the Cascadia Fault—mostly. Because the fault is offshore, the most likely damage will be the huge tsunamis that will wipe out the Pacific coastline of Washington, Oregon, and California north of Eureka, CA. We’re actually fortunate that the coastlines of Oregon and Washington are thinly inhabited for the most part.
That’s seismology for you; always finding fault.
Making cruel cracks, too.......................
“Seattle will likely survive a quake on the Cascadia Fault—mostly. Because the fault is offshore, the most likely damage will be the huge tsunamis that will wipe out the Pacific coastline of Washington...”
Why is that, since Seattle’s on the coast?
Wouldn't be unheard of; Sodom and Gomorrah went kaput simultaneously...
;^)
It’s not on the coast- it’s quite well protected by the Olympic peninsula.
Thanks Robert A Cook PE. Almost a catastrophism topic, so, why not? :^)
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Carole King - I Feel the Earth Move (Audio)
I see, thanks. However, from predictions I’ve read re: the far-reaching effects of a tsunami from a 9+ earthquake, it would seem that Seattle is still close enough to be quite vulnerable.
Be sure to keep you gas tank topped off.
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