Another devastating period of seismic activity occurred 115 years after the 1700 Cascadia ... moderate damage. One person died when an adobe house collapsed in nearby Gorman. The earthquake's ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans from British Columbia to Northern California, periodically experiences megathrust earthquakes M >8. During these ruptures, the last of which occurred in 1700, ...

Although that shaking caused little major damage — the biggest tsunami ... the story of a violent day. On Jan. 26, 1700, an earthquake on the Cascadia fault caused the forest to lurch downward ...

While the 1700 earthquake is the most studied, scientists have found evidence of eight to 10 other Cascadia quakes. These ...