Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest

A free online textbook in Earth Sciences: Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.

WHY IT’S INTERESTING

In this expanded new edition of Living with Earthquakes, Robert Yeats, a leading authority on earthquakes in California and the Pacific Northwest, describes the threat posed by the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a great earthquake fault which runs for hundreds of miles offshore from British Columbia to northern California.

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A CLOSER LOOK

New research reveals subtle movements on the deepest part of this fault every 14-15 months — building up strain toward the next major earthquake.

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