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Cascadia subduction zone

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The Cascadia region off the Pacific Northwest is a subduction zone where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate dives beneath the North American Plate.
high temporal
Describes the tectonic setting and plate interaction that characterizes the Cascadia subduction zone.
geology tectonics
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Both the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault zone extend for more than 1,000 kilometers along the Pacific coast and terminate in the region near the Mendocino Triple Junction.
high temporal
Describes the length and geographic relationship of the two major Pacific-coast fault systems and their shared termination area.
geology regional geography
Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a on

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