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Seismic fault beneath us is ‘fully loaded’ after 311 years

Julie Muhlstein, Herald Columnist As if you didn’t have enough worries, here is one more to add to that massive list: “It’s been 300 years,” Bill Steele said Tuesday. “We have a fully loaded subduction...

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4.3-magnitude earthquake near Mount St. Helens is biggest in 30 years

By Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian Fault line, won’t you be my Valentine? The second largest earthquake since Mount St. Helens erupted — a magnitude 4.3 shaker — rocked a fault line six miles north of...

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Geologists warn another earthquake could tear Tokyo in two after weakening of...

dailymail.co.uk Geologists have warned that another powerful earthquake could inflict terrible damage on Tokyo because the Size 9 monster which struck on March 11 has altered the earth’s surface. The...

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Drifting apart: Amazing underwater photos that show the growing gap between...

dailymail Swimming through an area of extreme natural beauty, this diver surveys the underwater canyons on his either side. But this British scuba diver is actually between two tectonic plates. Alex...

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Case Study: Tsunami in Seaside, Oregon

carleton Oregon Coast’s Vulnerability Recent research suggests that a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could create tsunami waves that impact over 1,000-km of coastline in the U.S. and Canada....

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Is the Massive Puerto Rico Trench Awakening?

www.zengardner.com by Zen Gardner “What Puerto Rico Trench?”  Exactly. The arrows in the map above show the direction the underlying Caribbean tectonic plates are moving, with the resultant build-up of...

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Unusual Fault Pattern Surfaces in Earthquake Study

spacedaily This 3-D view of the surface rupture of the April 4, 2010, El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake (red line) reveals a new fault line connecting the Gulf of California with the Elsinore fault, which...

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