Mega earthquake in the making? 10,000 US residents at risk from underwater fault line in the Pacific
underwater fault line under the Pacific ocean can trigger a major earthquake along the west coast, according to a Metro UK report. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, responsible for this potential threat, is spread across 600 miles of the US regions like California, Oregon and Washington. It also extends as far as British Colombia in Canada.
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Not just one, but four different segment of fault lines
Scientists have recently studied this zone and found a rather dangerous detail. According to reports, the underwater fault is not located at just one area, but is split across four segments, meaning it could collapse one at a time or all at once and in both scenarios, catastrophic effects can take place.
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Some fault regions have difference in the types of undersea rocks and seismic characteristics, and therefore some places can be even more dangerous than the other. If the researchers from Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are to be believed, the fault line can cause an earthquake at magnitude 9 or more, typically the worst, on the planet. A megaquake with a magnitude as high as this can trigger 30 metre-high tsunamis, killing thousands of people living on the West Coast and cause billions of dollars of property damage.
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