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New Earthquake Threat in Pacific region
November 8 , 2023
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- A series of shallow earthquakes has the potential to strike the Pacific Northwest of the US with similar devastating force to the San Francisco quake of 1906.
- This newfound earthquake threat poses a substantial risk to over 4 million residents in the Pacific Northwest.
- It is encompassing major cities like Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia.
- The research harnesses tree ring science and state-of-the-art radiocarbon dating methods to bridging the years 923 C.E. and 924 C.E.
- The study revealed that similar shallow faults, located less than 18 miles beneath the surface, ruptured approximately 1,000 years ago.
- It is known as the millennial cluster that occurred either simultaneously to produce an estimated 7.8 magnitude quake and devastated parts of the Middle East.
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