Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fracture in the Earth's crust roughly 100 kilometers offshore, running 1,100 kilometers from Northern California to Northern Vancouver Island. This fault generates monster earthquake about every 500 years. There is roughly a 30 percent chance that just such a disaster could happen within the next fifty years. Or it could happen tonight.

Cascadia's fault is virtually identical to the tectonic time bombs that decimated Sumatra in 2004, Chile in 2010, and Japan...