Saturday, January 27, 2018

The Really Big One: The next rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent

cascadia earthquake, cascadia earthquake subduction zone quake, cascadia megaquake, the real big one, The San Andreas Fault in southern California gets more headlines, but the Cascadia Subduction Zone is a much larger threat by far. This fault zone is where the Juan de Fuca plate meets the North American plate, and it stretches approximately 700 miles from northern Vancouver Island all the way down to northern California.