||| FROM KGW NEWS |||
A new theory from Oregon State University researchers suggests that two fault systems along the West Coast may be synchronized — and could trigger each other.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY KGW NEWS
“The Big One” — the catastrophic earthquake scientists have warned about for years — may have even bigger consequences than first thought.”
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One thing that concerns me about the Cascadia Earthquake to come is not whether it will trigger another earthquake on the San Andreas Fault. It’s whether it will trigger a series of smaller but still dangerous quakes on the lesser faults that riddle our islands. See the Orcas Curents article by Gary Greene titled “The Cracked and Broken Plate on Which Our Islands Rest,”:
https://orcascurrents.com/the-cracked-and-broken-plate-on-which-our-islands-rest/
One of those faults lies right below my house and along Enchanted Forest Road. Yikes!