Image of the Week: January 9 - 15, 2005
Southwest Washington Shoreline
It's been two weeks since the major earthquake in Sumatra generated a tsunami that devastated much of the coast of the northern Indian Ocean.
The cause of the earthquake was movement of two plates of Earth's surface moving towards each other along a convergent plate boundary.
A similar tectonic setting occurs along the west coast of North America, from north California to southern British Columbia. The plate boundary is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. It has been the site of great earthquakes in the past, most recently, January 26, 1700. These large earthquakes generated large tsunamis.
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Go to LCC Earthquake-Tsunami-N. Sumatra Web Page with many LINKS Go to USGS Latest Information on this event Go to Tsunami Information, Dec 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake - NGDC Go to Earthquake hazards in the Pacific Northwest DOGAMI Go to New evidence of Cascadia earthquakes DOGAMI Go to The M=9 Megathrust Earthquake of January 26, 1700 Go to Earthquake News Go to Go to LCC Earth Science WEB LINKS Page |
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LCC Image of the Week 07-08-05
David Cordero
dcordero@lcc.ctc.edu