Open AccessDecades‐Old Sediment Cores Complicate Cascadia Earthquake History
Author(s) -
Wendel JoAnna
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo350002
Subject(s) - geology , subduction , seismology , sediment , hazard , oceanography , paleontology , tectonics , chemistry , organic chemistry
Sediment cores from the 1960s are shaking up recent conclusions some scientists have drawn about Cascadia earthquakes, which occur along the subduction zone that stretches off the coast from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Northern California. A new Geology paper published online on 29 July (doi:10.1130/G35902.1) says that the Cascadia earthquake hazard is more complicated than what the recent research has shown.