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Stephanie Pappas

Link between Cascadia and San Andreas Fault earthquakes discovered 30 years after lost vessel stumbled across key data

Aerial of the San Andeas Fault.

A "Big One" on the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest might trigger a similarly serious earthquake on California's San Andreas Fault, new research suggests.

The findings are based on sediments taken from the seabed off the coast of Cape Mendocino, California and offshore Oregon. It's at Cape Mendocino that California's famous San Andreas fault ends and the Cascadia subduction zone begins.

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