Tsunami risk assessment on Vancouver Island prompts rethink of evacuation plans
On Jan. 26, 1700, an estimated magnitude 9 earthquake ruptured the seafloor along the West Coast from Northern California to British Columbia. Twenty minutes later, Vancouver Island, which sits on the doorstep of the Cascadia subduction zone where the quake originated, was struck by a massive…
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