Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Cascadia Subduction Zone, One of Earth's Top Hazards, Comes Into Sharper Focus
June 11, 2024
June 11, 2024
NEW YORK, June 11 (TNSres) -- Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news:
By Kevin Krajick
Off the coasts of southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and northern California lies a 600 mile-long strip where the Pacific Ocean floor is slowly diving eastward under North America. This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move against each other in a highly dangerous way . . .
By Kevin Krajick
Off the coasts of southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and northern California lies a 600 mile-long strip where the Pacific Ocean floor is slowly diving eastward under North America. This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move against each other in a highly dangerous way . . .