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"Blanco Fracture zone quakes are strike-slip (lateral motions of the crustal blocks on either side, rather than up-down displacement), so it is very unlikely for them to pose a tsunami threat ...

Fracture traces are the above-ground indication of underlying zones of rock fracture concentrations. They can be between 5 and 40 feet wide, but average about 20 feet and can be as long as a mile.

At least 66 earthquakes rattled the Blanco Fracture Zone from Tuesday into Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. By Alyssa Lukpat Early Tuesday morning, a 4.2-magnitude earthquake ...

Reconstructed image of the fracture zone. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use ...

Rupert Resources Makes Two New Gold Discoveries at Area 1 Including High Grade Intercepts of 249 Grams Per Tonne (g/t) Gold Over 0.5m Within a 10m Mineralised Fracture Zone and 15.1g/t Over 2m ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Roughly 60 earthquakes have happened in the Blanco Fracture Zone over the past day and a half. The earthquakes range in size, but there have been multiple 5.8 magnitude quakes ...

The quakes occurred along the Mendocino Fracture Zone at the junction between the San Andreas Fault and Cascadia Subduction Zone. Overview map of features in the Mendocino Ridge area.

Nine earthquakes, ranging in magnitudes of 3. 2-5. 4, rumbled near the Blanco Fracture Zone off the Oregon coast Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. A swarm of eight happened between 5:45 a. m ...