1. Figure 1: Map of the northern Cascadia subduction zone showing the distribution of earthquakes in the subducting Juan de Fuca plate and the locations of seismic cross-sections. Green dashed line ...

Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia subduction zone, two pieces of the Earth ... largest and most destructive earthquakes. That section of the fault is also shallow and closer ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone runs for almost 600 miles along the ... They say this part is potentially the most dangerous section as the fault line is quite smooth. When tectonic plates are ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...