{"id":21093,"date":"2022-06-17T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T21:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21093"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:06:48","slug":"a-mega-tsunami-in-the-pacific-north-west-it-could-be-worse-than-predicted-new-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-mega-tsunami-in-the-pacific-north-west-it-could-be-worse-than-predicted-new-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"A mega-tsunami in the Pacific north-west? It could be worse than predicted, new study says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Strange Sounds – June 9, 2022<\/p>\n

Scientists have discovered the size of the \u2018outer wedge\u2019 of a faultline can magnify a rupture\u2019s impact. That\u2019s a worrying news for the people living along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault running from Vancouver Island to northern California\u2026<\/p>\n

Scientists have long predicted a giant 9.0-magnitude earthquake that reverberates out from the Pacific north-west\u2019s Cascadia fault and quickly triggers colossal waves barreling to shore.<\/p>\n

But what if these predictions were missing an important piece of information \u2013 one that, in certain scenarios, could tell an even more extreme story?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new study, published last month in the peer-reviewed journal Earth-Science Reviews, points toward such a missing piece. Researchers revealed a previously unknown relationship between the severity of a tsunami triggered by an earthquake and something known as \u201cthe outer wedge\u201d, the area between the main earthquake fault and the seafloor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sylvain Barbot, a co-author of the study, described the outer wedge as the \u201cgarbage bag of subduction zones<\/em>\u201d, the place where two tectonic plates crash into each other and can produce an earthquake, because it\u2019s where sediment piles up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The researchers\u2019 findings suggest that the wider it is, the larger the maximum size of the tsunami will be.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The connection adds a new element to consider when making tsunami predictions, one that the authors suggest could mean heightened worst-case scenario predictions for some faults, including Cascadia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Strange Sounds – June 9, 2022 Scientists have discovered the size of the \u2018outer wedge\u2019 of a faultline can magnify a rupture\u2019s impact. That\u2019s a worrying news for the people living along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault running from Vancouver Island to northern California\u2026 Scientists have long predicted a giant 9.0-magnitude earthquake that reverberates … Continue reading A mega-tsunami in the Pacific north-west? It could be worse than predicted, new study says<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[16769,5461,36,38,16770,16771,316],"class_list":["post-21093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-horse","tag-cascadia-fault","tag-cascadia-subduction-zone","tag-disaster","tag-earthquake","tag-faultline","tag-sylvain-barbot","tag-tsunami"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5ud","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21095,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions\/21095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}