More likely to suffer southern section Cascadia.
An international team of geophysicists and seismologists have come to the conclusion that in the next 50 years the area from Northern California to British Columbia will have a major earthquake.
It is reported by “Rambler” with reference to the scientific journal Marine Geology.
Research on this subject conducted by the staff of the University of Oregon (USA), College British Columbia Camosun (Canada) and the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences (Spain). They found that a massive earthquake in the Northern part of the zone of Cascadia, which stretches from the USA to Canada, occur more frequently than previously thought.
According to scientists, the most earthquake-prone was the southern section of Cascadia. In Oregon earthquakes occur on average every 300-380 years, and in the area between California Coos Bay and Unicoi – interval 220-240V years.
According to Chris Goldfinger, Professor, College of Earth, ocean and atmospheric studies at the University of Oregon, a “common concern of tremors in the subduction zone is scientifically justified”. The last major earthquake in the zone of Cascadia, sent a tsunami across the Pacific to Japan, occurred in the region more than 315 years ago in 1700.
