You can take a breath of relief -- the earthquakes that occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon coast this week are not a precursor of the 'Big One.'
, where the North American Plate and Juan de Fuca Plate meet. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is the fault that will one day cause the “Big One” — the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that happens every 300 years or so.
“I would not see these earthquakes as any kind of a warning sign or a precursor of something happening that we should be more concerned about close to shore,” he said. “This is sort of business as usual for plate tectonics out in the Pacific Ocean.” Tobin said the biggest earthquake mistake that Puget Sound area residents make is not ensuring their houses are in shape to withstand a large quake by, for example, retrofitting older homes. He also noted that local governments need to make upgrades to buildings like schools.
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