The Puget Sound faults under the heavily populated Puget Sound region (Puget Lowland) of Washington state form a regional complex of interrelated seismogenic...
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The Seattle Fault is a zone of multiple shallow east–west thrust faults that cross the Puget Sound Lowland and through Seattle (in the U.S. state of Washington)...
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Olympic–Wallowa lineament (section Puget Sound)
that crosses the OWL is Puget Sound, and it is curious to consider the possible implications of a Puget Sound Fault. (Such a fault was once proposed on the...
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Puget Sound (/ˈpjuːdʒɪt/ PEW-jit; Lushootseed: x̌ʷəlč IPA: [ˈχʷəlt͡ʃ] WHULCH) is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins...
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New Madrid seismic zone (redirect from New Madrid Fault Line)
into Dyersburg. It is southwest of the Wabash Valley seismic zone. The faults responsible for the NMSZ are embedded in a subsurface geological feature...
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River, other strands (or related faults) cross the East Passage of south-central Puget Sound. How far east these faults extend is not known, but probably...
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Hole-in-the-Ground List of volcanoes in Canada Olympic–Wallowa Lineament Puget Sound faults Siletzia Volcanology of Canada This article incorporates public domain...
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have been created at a single center and displaced along a fault (see Puget Sound faults). National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson...
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or arch between the Seattle Fault and Tacoma Fault formed by north-south compression of the bedrock. (See Puget Sound faults#Geological setting.) Gold Mountain...
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paleoseismic evidence that the Yakima Fold Belt is linked to active Puget Sound faults. Geodetic studies of the Oregon Rotation show that Oregon is rotating...
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571. The Leech River Fault/CRBF has also been aligned with possible faults in Discovery Bay and Puget Sound — see Puget Sound faults — but the evidence...
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The 1965 Puget Sound earthquake occurred at 08:28 AM PDT (15:28 UTC) on April 29 within the Puget Sound region of Washington state. It had a magnitude...
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Discovery Bay and the west side of Puget Sound, following the edge of a relict continental margin just as the Tofino Fault follows the present margin. More...
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It flows generally northwest, emptying into Commencement Bay, part of Puget Sound. The river and its tributaries drain an area of about 948 square miles...
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Cascadia subduction zone (redirect from Cascadia fault zone)
dip in the fault during a separate event around 900 CE. In the 1960s, underground fractures were uncovered by oil companies in Puget Sound. These were...
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by the EPA. This ecoregion is a transition between the ecology of the Puget Sound and the forests of the Cascades. The ecology of Cougar Mountain is thus...
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Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The epicenter was in the southern Puget Sound, northeast of Olympia, but the shock was felt in Oregon, British Columbia...
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County WA peaks list", Lists of John Lists of Peaks, Colorado Finding faults, Puget Sound Lidar Consortium, August 18, 2003 Yeates, Robert S. (2004), Living...
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Seattle (category Populated places on Puget Sound)
fastest-growing large cities. Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost...
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power in the traditional religion of the Lushootseed-speaking peoples of Puget Sound. A rock near the Fauntleroy ferry terminal in Seattle, Washington is...
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Liberty Bay Port Gamble Port Madison Port Orchard Puget Sound Sinclair Inlet Blue Hills Seattle Fault Zone Kitsap Lake Ostrich Bay Horseshoe Lake Island...
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southern Whidbey Island along the shores of Admiralty Inlet, north of Puget Sound. The beach access parking lot is roughly two miles from the retail core...
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and Montana. It is the largest recorded earthquake to occur in the Puget Sound region of Washington.[citation needed] Eight people were killed, a minimum...
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city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is located on Puget Sound between Edmonds and Everett, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of...
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Everett, Washington (category Populated places on Puget Sound)
Seattle and is one of the main cities in the metropolitan area and the Puget Sound region. Everett is the seventh-most populous city in the state by population...
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Residents, thought to number 75, cut off[how?] from their food supply of Puget Sound chinook salmon, themselves listed as a threatened species. Scarlet's...
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Austera Peak (category Puget Sound geography stubs)
July 21, 2013. Beckey, p. 15 Beckey, p. 16 Kruckeberg, Arthur (1991). The Natural History of Puget Sound Country. University of Washington Press. v t e...
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Jay; Zahir, Zalmai (eds.). sdaʔdaʔ gʷəɬ dibəɬ ləšucid ʔacaciɬtalbixʷ - Puget Sound Geography. Original Manuscript from T.T. Waterman. Lushootseed Press...
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University of Washington. "Welcome to Puget Sound Steel". Puget Sound Steel Co Inc. "Featured Project". Puget Sound Steel Co Inc. "Seattle". PACIFIC METAL...
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November 1998, when six men were killed in explosion at the Equilon Puget Sound Refinery in Anacortes. Williams Olefins Plant explosion Wehrly, Steve...
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