Monday, January 26, 2015

[Geology2] Re: [allthingshistory] Today in EQ History- The largest known EQ to have occurred in the lower 48 states



If anyone is interested, here is the link to the book, The Orphan Tsunami of 1700:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1707/

Lin

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Kim Noyes kimnoyes@gmail.com [allthingshistory] <allthingshistory@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Cascadia Subduction Zone
1700 01 26
Magnitude ~9

This earthquake, the largest known to have occurred in the "lower 48" United States, rocked Cascadia, a region 600 miles long that includes northern California, Oregon, Washington, and southern British Columbia. The earthquake set off a tsunami that not only struck Cascadia's Pacific coast, but also crossed the Pacific Ocean to Japan, where it damaged coastal villages. Written records of the damage in Japan pinpoint the earthquake to the evening of January 26, 1700.



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