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The Big One: Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest

In July 2015, Kathryn Schultz's New Yorker piece, "The Really Big One," noted: "An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when." This site from the Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture at the University of Washington, which is based on an exhibit from 2002, fills in some of the information about the Pacific Northwest's earthquake proneness. Readers...

https://www.burkemuseum.org/static/earthquakes/index.html