By Strange Sounds -Dec 3, 2019
Recent West Coast Earthquakes Have Scientists Very Interested Because it Has a Connection With the Big Cascadia Earthquake
The Pacific Northwest is rumbling. You just might not know it. A M4.5 quake between Port Orford and Coos Bay, Oregon has scientists very interested because it has a connection to the big Cascadia earthquake forecast for our future.
On Sunday at 12:31 p.m., a
M3.4 earthquake rattled south of Mount Rainier, jolting a seismic region near Goat Rocks, which produced a damaging 5.5 earthquake back in 1981.
Three minutes later, a
M4.1 quake struck off the coast Washington’s most northwest corner and is most probably connected with offshore plate movement.
Those Weren’t The Only QuakesA list of the recent earthquakes can be found
here.
The earthquake getting the most attention from scientists struck around 5:45 p.m.
on Friday, Nov. 29.
The quake is intriguing for its magnitude and location. It registered at M4.5 and struck southwest of Coos Bay in Port Orford, which is near the Oregon coast and the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
The 4.5 quake was strong enough to set off the new ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system, telling people as far away as Grants Pass that shaking might be coming.
All these quakes are interconnected somehow and are a fresh reminder of how seismically-active the Pacific Northwest is and will remain.
More:
https://strangesounds.org/2019/12/recent-pacific-northwest-earthquake-cascadia-link.html