A hazardous fault line that runs south of downtown Seattle may have formed when the edge of the North American continent tore apart 55 million years ago, a new study suggests. Seattle sits atop the ...
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The Pacific Plate Is Tearing Apart – Scientists Reveal New Faults Found Beneath the Ocean!
Geoscientists from the University of Toronto have made a breakthrough discovery that adds new dimensions to the theory of plate tectonics. Their research, published in Geophysical Research Letters, ...
This press release is available online at: https://news.agu.org/press-release/seattle-fault-may-have-origins-in-an-ancient-tear-in-the-continent The Seattle fault is ...
THE Great Glen Fault was shown by W. Q. Kennedy 1 to be a sinistral tear fault on which a displacement of about 65 miles has occurred since Middle Old Red Sandstone time. E. M. Anderson 1 considered ...
Southern Italy presents a complex and dynamically evolving seismotectonic setting, where historical records and modern geophysical investigations reveal a network of active faults and intricate ...
The Seattle fault zone is a network of shallow faults slicing through the lowlands of Puget Sound, threatening to create damaging earthquakes for the more than four million people who live there. A ...
The modern Seattle fault zone cuts directly through the densely populated Puget lowlands, including Seattle and its metro area. Fifty million years ago, the continent tore in two here, setting the ...
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