Earthquake — Cascadia Subduction Zone

When

27 Jan 1700

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

9.0

Where

Usa

Coordinates

45.00° N, 125.00° W

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Megathrust earthquake in the Pacific Northwest region

The 1700 Cascadia earthquake occurred along the Cascadia subduction zone on January 26, 1700, with an estimated moment magnitude of 8.7–9.2. The megathrust earthquake involved the Juan de Fuca plate from mid-Vancouver Island, south along the Pacific Northwest coast as far as northern California. The plate slipped an average of 20 meters along a fault rupture about 1,000 kilometers long.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “At approximately 9 p.m., the Cascadia earthquake occurs in the Pacific Northwest, with an estimated moment magnitude of 8.7–9.2”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Kaskadien-Erdbeben von 1700 vor der Westküste Nordamerikas löst einen Tsunami aus, der bis nach Japan kommt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le tremblement de terre de Cascadia, de magnitude 9, provoque un puissant tsunami qui frappe la côte nord-ouest des États-Unis et les côtes du Japon”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un terremoto de 9,2 sacude la costa pacífica de Canadá y Estados Unidos provocando un tsunami que golpea la costa norteamericana y Japón”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “米国北西部のカスケード沈み込み帯にて大規模な地震（カスケード地震、Mw 8.7 - 9.2）発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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