The most dangerous earthquake faults for Seattle: The Cascadia subduction Zone, the Seattle Fault and the South Whidbey Island Fault.

Now the Japanese scientists know what to look for and put out 150 stations on the seafloor … SEATTLE – There's a 14 percent chance of a magnitude 9 Cascadia earthquake hitting Seattle in the next 50 years, the U. S. Geological Survey estimates.
There have been thousands of aftershocks of the magnitude 6.4 earthquake on July 4 and the 7.1 quake that occurred the next day.

By Zosha Millman, SeattlePI. Fortunately, the earthquake didn’t happen, but the real utility of the warning was to get people thinking about earthquake hazard in that region.

“The survey announced that there was a greater likelihood of a major earthquake in the next two or three weeks based on the activity of the tremor. There have been thousands of aftershocks of the magnitude 6.4 earthquake on July 4 and the 7.1 quake that occurred the next day.

For example, before the Japan magnitude 9 earthquake that killed 20,000 people in 2011, there were two days of very strange activity right where that earthquake started — a magnitude 7 earthquake, followed by something we call “slow earthquakes,” which are sort of like a regular earthquake only a thousand times slower. As shown in the map below, Seattle and its region is constantly being rattled by small earthquakes and tremors. Seattle, WA has a very high earthquake risk, with a total of 1,269 earthquakes since 1931. Seattle to suspend paid parking enforcement during coronavirus crisis Gee and Ursula Expert: Social distancing won't work until whole country shuts down The USGS database shows that there is a 87.56% chance of a major earthquake within 50km of Seattle, WA within the next 50 years. Earthquake Information for Seattle, Washington.

It shows that tremor is starting to be used for earthquake forecasting.” If that happens, the damage will be even worse than a magnitude 9.0 Cascadia subduction zone earthquake, Steele says.

There is a 5 percent chance of a 6.7 magnitude earthquake on the Seattle Fault in the next 50 years and about a 2 percent chance for an earthquake greater than a magnitude 7.0.

Here's how a 9.0 earthquake would affect Washington's coast.


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