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The boundary between the Juan de Fuca plate and the Pacific plate is this Juan de Fuca Ridge.

Port Angeles is located on the Olympic Peninsula, across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Vancouver Island.

Even Astoria, on Columbia mouth, and Victoria, on Strait of Juan de Fuca won’t be affected much.

Washington/Oregon has the same or greater seismic risk to California due to the offshore Juan de Fuca Subduction zone.

In this area, it's the Juan de Fuca plate (not the Pacific plate) which is subducting under the North American plate.

That is what the Juan de Fuca plate is doing: slipping steadily beneath North America.

God is a sadist on the Juan de Fuca Rift, and His name is Physics.

For example in the Pacific Northwest the earthquake from the Juan de Fuca plate look to be substantially deeper than this one.

So there is a tectontic relationship between the two sites - sea floor spreading at the ridge is one of the factors that drives the subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate.

Inland, the Cascade volcanoes mark the line where, far below, the Juan de Fuca plate is heating up and melting everything above it.

The wave coming through the Strait of Juan de Fuca will spread outward into Puget Sound and mostly dissipate against Camano and Whidbey Islands.

The Strait of Juan de Fuca just happens to be the primary route to the Pacific Ocean from Naval Submarine Base Bangor, in nearby Bremerton.

The phrasing is a little unfortunate, but this area sits on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, which is in one sense the "origin" of the Juan de Fuca plate.

The Strait of Juan de Fuca is sometimes referred to as Juan he Fuck You because of the "haystacks".

Your left hand represents an oceanic plate called Juan de Fuca, ninety thousand square miles in size.

Under pressure from Juan de Fuca, the stuck edge of North America is bulging upward and compressing eastward, at the rate of, respectively, three to four millimetres and thirty to forty millimetres a year.