Earthquake Fault Much Larger,Dangerous Than Thought
An earthquake fault previously believed to be limited to an area south of Washington state’s Whidbey Island actually stretches 250 to 300 miles, from Victoria, B.C., to Yakima, Wash., crossing the Cascade Mountains and capable of producing a major earthquake, new research shows.
Many of the other faults in western Washington could be connected to the South Whidbey Island Fault in a network similar to the San Andreas Fault system in California, Craig Weaver, the regional earthquake coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey based in Seattle, said in an interview Wednesday.
Suzette Kimball, the USGS acting director, told Congress on Thursday that there was “strong evidence” other faults in western Washington were connected to the South Whidbey fault.
“It appears there is a very large (fault) system in the Cascade arc,” she told the House interior appropriations subcommittee.
Weaver said scientists are trying to determine whether the South Whidbey Island Fault extends as far east as the Hanford nuclear reservation and if it could also be connected to the highly unstable Cascadia subduction zone off the coast.
“This is big stuff,” said Weaver, adding the South Whidbey fault was “most dangerous. A lot of people are looking over our shoulder.”
The fault could be capable of producing a maximum earthquake registering 7.5 on the Richter scale, which is used to measure the strength of earthquakes, he said. An earthquake that size is capable of causing serious damage over large areas.
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