Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake: Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca

The earthquake scenario depicted in these animations is a magnitude (Mw) 9.1 Cascadia Subduction Zone event (Priest et al., 1997 and Myers et al. 1999). This event’s primary features are a rupture length of approximately 1050 km, average rupture width of 70 km, and slip of 17.5 m.

• Bellingham Inundation [4.5 MB file, .mp4]
• Anacortes and Whidbey Island Inundation [8.3 MB file, .mov]

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