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Small earthquakes mount in Southern California
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA trio of Southern California earthquakes have struck in the area of Newport Beach and Costa Mesa in the last two days, with a pair rumbling late...
Scientists finally think they know where the most dangerous part of this US earthquake zone is and...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoZone just off the Pacific Coast of the US can trigger earthquakes greater than magnitude 8. For the...
'The big one': Researchers gain clearest picture yet of fault that threatens the Pacific Northwest
NBC News via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoA fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a...
Magnitude 4.3 earthquake strikes near Bayview, CA
San Francisco Chronicle· 16 hours agoThe United States Geological Survey reports a preliminary magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck...
Cascadia Subduction Zone's subterranean structure revealed
Cosmos· 1 day agoNew data covering the Cascadia subduction zone – a megathrust fault, which are capable of generating...
3.6-magnitude earthquake strikes a mile from Costa Mesa – and then an aftershock
Orange County Register· 2 days agoA 3.6-magnitude earthquake shook parts of Orange County on Thursday afternoon, June 6, the U.S....
Scientists map one of Earth’s top hazards in the Pacific Northwest
Washington Post· 1 day agoAlong this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia subduction zone, two pieces of the Earth’s crust...
New data on ‘the Big One’ offers a clearer view of inevitable earthquake catastrophe
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoOn January 26, 1700, a tsunami struck Japan. We know this from written records describing the...
'The difference between alarming and catastrophic': Cascadia megafault has 1 especially deadly...
LiveScience· 1 day agoThe Cascadia subduction zone has the potential to rock the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia...
Preliminary 3.6-magnitude quake hits Orange County
KTLA-TV Los Angeles· 2 days agoA preliminary 3.6 earthquake rattled Orange County Thursday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake struck just before 5...