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pacific northwest seismic network

  1. bjdeming

    6.3 Quake Off Oregon Coast

    This is the Blanco transform fault way out to sea, not the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Two completely separate geologic features. It caused no harm, no tsunami. The movements are strike-slip (in a more-or-less horizontal plane) so tsunamis aren't a problem like they are on a thrust fault. The...
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