An earthquake struck off the northern California coast on Tuesday ... of the long-term seismic risks posed by the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a less-publicized but potentially catastrophic fault ...
It is where three tectonic plates meet and the Northwest’s Cascadia subduction zone and California’s San Andreas Fault system meet. The quake itself occurred on the Mendocino fault zone.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake occurred at 10:44 a.m. right off the coast of Northern California ... triggered by underwater earthquakes at a subduction zone, where tectonic plates move up or down ...
In Portland, experts say "the big one" would be connected to a fault called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which stretches from Vancouver B.C. down to northern California. "It goes off every 700 ...