Many aren’t aware of the impending danger of an earthquake happening off the northern Pacific coastline of the United States (U.S.). But scientists predict a one-in-three chance that, within the next 50 years, a major earthquake with a potential 7.0 to 9.0 magnitude range is likely to strike the Pacific Northwest. The source will be the Cascadia subduction zone, a “megathrust” fault running approximately 700 miles from northern California, along the coast of Oregon and Washington, and up north to Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
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