Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest
by Robert S. Yeats
Publisher: Oregon State University Press 2004
ISBN/ASIN: 0870710249
ISBN-13: 9780870710247
Number of pages: 402
Description:
Robert Yeats, a leading authority on earthquakes in California and the Pacific Northwest, describes the threat posed by the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a great earthquake fault which runs for hundreds of miles offshore from British Columbia to northern California.
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