The Wenatchee Valley Erratics, Ice Age Floods Institute’s next Zoom program, “Plate Tectonics and Cascadia Earthquakes,” will be on Tuesday June 8 at 7:00 PM with Kelsay Stanton, Erratics past vice-president and current UW PhD candidate.
California is known for its earthquakes, but what about the rest of the west coast? What are our seismic hazards? Why don’t we have as many earthquakes as our more southerly neighbor? This talk examines the tectonic setting for the Pacific Northwest and its many seismic sources, such as:
Kelsay will show how these fit into the tectonic picture, and what it means for shaking in Central Washington and beyond.
Please click the link below to join the webinar at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, June 8:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86120141272
Webinar ID: 861 2014 1272
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