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  1. *Potential for #US #DesalinationPlants*

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    ...oscillation period of about 25 hours (versus 12.5 hours for the #Atlantic), resulting in amplified tides only once daily rather than twice, which 👉reduces overall tidal energy availability compared to the #Atlantic.👈.

    While #urricane frequency is lower than the Atlantic, the 👉#Pacific coast faces a far more catastrophic long-term hazard:
    the #CascadiaSubductionZone #MegathrustEarthquake. This represents an existential threat to.. @steter

  2. The Surface of the Earth Is Literally Crumbling Under Our Feet

    Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Even long-lived subduction zones eventually die, and scientists believe…
    #NewsBeep #News #Science #BrandonShuck #CA #Canada #CascadiaSubductionZone #geologicprocesses #geologicalages #JuandeFuca #seismicdata #subductionzones
    newsbeep.com/ca/269884/

  3. Unravelling The Dance Of Earthquakes - Evidence Of Partial Synchronization Of The Northern San Andreas Fault And Cascadia Megathrust
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    doi.org/10.1130/GES02857.1 <-- shared paper
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    “Previous paleoseismic work has suggested a possible stress triggering relationship between the Cascadia subduction zone and the northern San Andreas fault based on similar event timings. Turbidite successions correlated to both systems may support this hypothesis. Historic earthquakes in 1980 and 1992 in the Cascadia subduction zone and the 1906 earthquake on the northern San Andreas fault left turbidite records that are temporally well constrained by bomb-carbon−supported age-depth models..."
    #geology #USWest #Seattle #Washington #California #earthquake #engineeringeology #fault #faulting #SanAndreas #Cascadiasubductionzone #linked #Cascadia #research #sediment #sedimentology #Turbidite #paleoseismology #historic #spatial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #model #modeling #stress #subduction #dating #radiocarbon #Holocene

  4. Mega-tsunami warning: Could a single earthquake drown Seattle and Portland within minutes? New research raises alarm

    Scientists have sounded an urgent warning about one of North America’s most dangerous fault lines. The Cascadi…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #CA #Canada #CascadiaSubductionZone #coastalflooding #earthquakepreparedness #earthquakerisk #emergencymanagement #megatsunamiwarning #mega-tsunami #Science #seismicactivity #VirginiaTech #VirginiaTechstudy
    newsbeep.com/ca/77434/

  5. Easy-Build Handwashing Station, With Videos

    instructables.com/Easy-Build-H

    A Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) online training on sanitation happily titled, “You Survive the Earthquake But Die of Dysentery,” was presented by a Portland NET member and physician, Merilee Karr, who began “Those involved with sanitation following a catastrophic event will be more likely to save more lives than the rescue and medical team.” That got our attention.

    #portland #pdx #cascadiasubductionzone #pnw #oregon #washington #earthquake #disasterpreparedness #sanitation #mutualaid #diy

  6. Scientists have mapped one of the most hazardous spots on the globe in unprecedented detail: a 600-mile geologic boundary just off the #PacificNorthwest coast.

    Along this fraught stretch, called the #CascadiaSubductionZone, 2 pieces of the #Earth’s crust slide against each other, building up stresses capable of unleashing a catastrophic 9.0-magnitude #earthquake & generating a #tsunami, w/waves as high as 40 feet.

    #science #geology #climate
    washingtonpost.com/science/202

  7. #EarthquakeReport for the #OTD in 1700 M9.0 @Earthquake along the #Cascadiasubductionzone offshore of #BritishColumbia #Washington #Oregon #California

    geologic evidence for a full margin megathrust subduction zone earthquake
    transpacific #tsunami

    report
    earthjay.com/?p=3640

  8. It’s strange to be in a place - physically and mentally - where I’m neither always looking for The Mountain, nor on constant alert for The Big One.

    #Illinois is flat and the trees are bare, but plentiful are the sun…and the stability of the earth.

    Of course, snow and cold are, too. And I saw a storm siren today, a reminder that tornadoes happen here. But I’m visiting part of my chosen family, surrounded by their warmth.

    #IL #WA #Seattle #CascadiaSubductionZone #earthquake #MtRainier #Takoma

  9. Seattle is blessed to have Sandi Doughton doing science journalism.

    Anyway, for folks in the greater Seattle area this is of special interest.

    #CascadiaSubductionZone

    seattletimes.com/seattle-news/

  10. In a new Temblor blog post, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics postdoctoral scholar Alice Turner details the various seismic risks Portland, Oregon faces from local faults and the offshore Cascadia Subduction Zone.

    temblor.net/earthquake-insight

    #Seismology #PDX #Oregon #Earthquakes #CascadiaSubductionZone

  11. Looking up resources for emergency kits online (#CascadiaSubductionZone, #AmericasMostDangerousVolcano, etc. etc.), and I keep accidentally opening preppers' sites. This is totally going to mess up how The Algorithms deal with me, isn't it?

  12. Via the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the University of Washington: "Tabloid news sites have recently been circulating information about this discovery [of Pythia's Oasis off the coast of Oregon] and claiming it is a harbinger of a large megathrust earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This idea misrepresents what we actually learn from observations of Pythia’s Oasis and creates a false sense of alarm."

    pnsn.org/blog/2023/04/19/pythi

    #Oregon #PNW #CascadiaSubductionZone #Earthquakes

  13. The more successful real-life tests of ShakeAlert in CA means that when we get a big quake in WA, many of us will get some advance warning via phone alerts.

    This is very important for the next M9.0 Cascadia Subduction Zone quake, where the I-5 corridor may get up to 1 min before destructive shaking originating offshore reaches places like Seattle.

    Something I wrote in 2019 about ShakeAlert:
    smartcitiesdive.com/news/impor

    #ShakeAlert #Seattle #Earthquakes #CascadiaSubductionZone #PNW

  14. “The last large quake on the Cascadia fault occurred on Jan. 26, 1700, scientists say…geologic evidence from the past 10,000 years indicates that massive quakes with a magnitude of around 9.0 happen on the fault on an average of every 430 years. When including smaller but still powerful quakes on portions of the fault, the timeline in some areas shrinks to every 250 years…It has been 322 years.” #CascadiaSubductionZone #earthquakes nytimes.com/2022/02/07/us/tsun

  15. CW: BC builds shelter on Haida Gwaii

    " #BC to build #Canada's first #tsunami evacuation tower on Haida Gwaii to protect students"

    The province is providing $16.5 million, the local school board $0.25 million , for #seismic upgrades and the tower. The theory is to move vertically when you have not time to move horizontally.

    straight.com/news/bc-to-build-

    #News #Environment #CascadiaSubductionZone #HaidaGwaii #BCPoli #NDP

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