Subducting plate structure and megathrust morphology at Cascadia

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> The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) has hosted giant earthquakes of moment magnitude >8.5 in the past and poses a major geohazard to populations of the Pacific Northwest.

Read that part just as the train announced ‘Now entering, Beacon Hill’ and it was a touch scary thinking about what would happen in that situation.

Obligatory link to "The Really Big One" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

We moved to Portland that year and that article was on our mind a lot. I feel a bit more relaxed now that we moved out of the PNW (for a variety of reasons)

But honestly, I can’t help but think that the article was sponsored behind the scenes by someone who wanted to scare people away. Worked on us!

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