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Similarly, a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is not a question of whether it will happen but when.

Fortunately, the tallest tsunami was from a rockfall in a fjord[1], not from a subduction zone earthquake.

On Venus, there's not a huge amount of horizontal motion on the surface (there's clearly no subduction on Venus).

Prior to this time, subduction doesn't seem to be occuring, and there's not much evidence for large horizontal motion.

Also same subduction fault that the earthquake was on runs down the coast off shore of Tokyo.

The infrastructure supporting transient internet technologies is way way down the list of importance if the Cascadia Subduction Zone slips.

Outside Magazine did a great article about the Cascadia Subduction Zone a few years ago.

We should not be dependent on a small number of companies who wish to locate their resources in continental subduction zones.

If you're going to bury it in the ocean, your best bet would be to bury it near a subduction zone.

That being said, burying it deep near the the start of a plate subduction zone makes at least as much sense.

We already know through fracking that injecting fluid into subduction zones can trigger quakes.

Every ~11 months, the cascadia subduction zone has a magnitude 6 or 7 earthquake.

In other words, the Cascadia subduction zone has, as Goldfinger put it, “all the right anatomical parts.” Yet not once in recorded history has it caused a major earthquake—or, for that matter, any quake to speak of.

There are regularly 4.0-5.5 earthquakes along the oregon coast, and the seismologists that report on these say that they are a result of the Cascadia Subduction...