Sentences with phrase «subduction zone offshore»

That variety implies that almost any scenario is possible in another part of the Pacific Rim where quake risk is thought to be high — along the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of Washington, Oregon, and other parts of the western United States and Canada.

The focus was on the Nankai Trough, one of three major subduction zones offshore of Japan.

Not exact matches

The Tehuantepec earthquake originated offshore in the subduction zone, while the Morelos earthquake was an example of in - slab seismicity.

The broader region is vulnerable to earthquakes from multiple sources, including deep earthquakes within the subducted Juan de Fuca plate, offshore megathrust earthquakes on Cascadia subduction zone and the shallow crustal earthquakes within the North American Plate.

In particular, they found that big, destructive quakes may have a better chance of occurring offshore of Washington and northern Oregon than farther south along the subduction zone — although any large quake would impact the surrounding area.

The project «offers a unique opportunity to image the seismic structures associated with an entire plate, including its spreading center and subduction zone, within an easily accessible part of the continental and offshore United States,» said University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher Haiying Gao, a guest editor of the SRL focus section.

The preliminary results from the Cascadia Initiative include a report of previously undetected, small earthquakes offshore, and seismic imaging that reveals new offshore structures at the subduction zone.

The triggering effect was probably accentuated by an offshore «sedimentary wedge» — a mass of sedimentary rock piled up at the edge of the subduction zone boundary offshore from the North Island's east coast.

The Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide offshore of Pakistan, forming a subduction zone, but today's earthquake was onshore and mostly strike - slip — each side of the fault moved horizontally.

The challenge, said Kohler, was to develop a standard set of algorithms that could account for the different tectonic environments in each region, including the offshore subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest and the mostly on - shore faults in California.

That is partly because subduction - zone earthquakes occur offshore, and the strength of the shaking diminishes quickly with distance.

However, an offshore subduction zone earthquake or an earthquake generated somewhere else around the Pacific Ocean will generate a tsunami, which is actually a series of waves.

The Cascadia subduction zone lies offshore from northern California to southwestern British Columbia, where two tectonic plates — the North America plate and the Juan de Fuca plate — come together to form an 800 - mile long earthquake fault.