Last week, about 60 miles off the coast near Ferndale, California, the tectonic plates shifted under the Pacific Ocean, sending seismic waves through the ocean floor that radiated onto land and were ...
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The rupture struck just southwest of the Cascadia subduction zone — the offshore fault capable of generating 8.5 or 9.0 earthquakes, followed by massive tsunamis.