Explore: Cascadia Subduction Zone

45°N 124°W / 45°N 124°W / 45; -124 The Cascadia subduction zone is a 1,000 km (620 mi) long convergent plate boundary, about 100–200 km (70–100 mi)

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

Mendocino triple junction, where three tectonic plates meet. The Cascadia subduction zone intersects the San Andreas fault at the Mendocino triple junction

ocean, the Cascadia Inner Sea, and seas and their ecosystems out to the continental slope running down the entirety of the Cascadia subduction zone to the

well over 700 miles (1,100 km). The arc formed due to subduction along the Cascadia subduction zone. Although taking its name from the Cascade Range, this

year at an oblique angle to the subduction zone. Because of the very large fault area, the Cascadia subduction zone can produce very large earthquakes

coincidental with the continental Mohorovicic discontinuity. At the Cascadia subduction zone, the distribution of LFEs form a surface roughly parallel to intercrustal

the softer ground, releasing 0.5 million megatons of TNT energy. Cascadia subduction zone List of tsunamis Megathrust earthquake Megatsunami NOAA Center

process occurs is known as a subduction zone, and its surface expression is known as an arc-trench complex. The process of subduction has created most of the

subducts under the Caribbean plate in the Lesser Antilles subduction zone. The Cascadia subduction zone is where the oceanic Juan de Fuca, Gorda and Explorer