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Jun 7, 2024 · Many researchers have chased clues of the last “big one”: an 8.7-magnitude earthquake in 1700. They’ve pieced together the event’s history using centuries-old records of tsunamis, Native...
May 28, 2015 · A giant earthquake will strike California this summer. Skyscrapers will topple, the Hoover Dam will crumble and a massive tsunami will wash across the Golden Gate Bridge. Or at least, that’s the...
Jun 21, 2024 · What is 'the Big One'? Scientists have long warned of the potential for a high-magnitude and catastrophic earthquake to affect the Pacific Northwest possibly any day now.
Aug 5, 2018 · Subduction systems—where one tectonic plate slides over another—are capable of producing the world’s largest known earthquakes. A prime example is the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that rocked Japan.
Jun 7, 2024 · A new study offers a deeper glimpse into two colliding tectonic plates than we’ve ever had before. The research, published June 7 in the journal Science Advances, includes imagery of the lower ...
Jun 14, 2024 · For the first time, NSF-funded researchers revealed a detailed look at the potential for a major earthquake off the coasts of southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and northern California.
Jul 13, 2015 · The odds of the very big one are roughly one in ten. Even those numbers do not fully reflect the danger—or, more to the point, how unprepared the Pacific Northwest is to face it.
Jun 27, 2024 · “The big one is supposed to be worse,” we whispered to ourselves, and to one another. In the psychogeography of Southern California, it lay sleeping like a monster deep beneath the Earth’s ...
Jun 8, 2023 · Seismologists think that the Golden State is due for a massive quake, referred to as “the Big One” – but a number of researchers published a paper in the journal Nature on Wednesday that...
Jun 9, 2016 · California has spent years preparing for “the big one” —the inevitable earthquake that will undoubtedly unleash all kinds of havoc along the famous San Andreas fault.
