![]() The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) can create an animation of a historical tsunami Japan in about 9 hours, so the earthquake must have occurred around 9:00 at night in Its tsunami would cross the Pacific Ocean and reach Length of the 1000 km (~600 mi) long fault of the Cascadia Subduction Zone and severe shakingĬould have lasted for 5 minutes or longer. ![]() Such an earthquake would have ruptured the earth along the entire Large earthquake to explain it - perhaps as large as 9.2 magnitude, comparable to the GreatĪlaska Earthquake of 1964. That much motion over such a large area requires a very (3.3 - 6.6 ft.), flooding them with seawater. The trees all died in the winter of 1699 - 1700 when the coasts of northern California, Oregon, and Washington suddenly dropped 1- 2 m The last of these great earthquakes struck the region. By comparing the tree rings of dead trees with those still living they could tell when Geologically active region, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, not only hosts erupting volcanoes butĪlso produces megathrust earthquakes capable of generating devastating, ocean-crossing ![]() Northwest of North America, a region also known as Cascadia. Of Native Americans, sediment deposits, and ghost forests of drowned trees in the Pacific "orphan tsunami" through careful analysis of historical records in Japan as well as oral histories Scientists and historians in Japan and the United States solved the mystery of what caused this Since no one in Japan felt the earthquake that must have caused it. Just before midnight on Janua tsunami struck the coasts of Japan without warning ![]()
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