I presented a talk to a senior seminar for the Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) in regards to their efforts to prepare for the disaster following a Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) earthquake and tsunami. The Department of Defense provides support to local, regional, and federal organizations following disasters, natural or otherwise.
I post some supprting material below, as long as some of the references that I use in this presentation.
- 2015 DSCA, Portland, Oregon 12/8/2015 (33 MB pptx)
Here is the digital presentation that I prepared for their seminar in Portland, Oregon
- For the 315th anniversary of the most recent full rupture CSZ earthquake I put together a summary of our state of knowledge about the CSZ and that 1700 A.D. Jan. 26 earthquake. 2015.01.26
- The USGS (and others) put together an educational video about the CSZ. I post this video and other supporting information online here: 2015.10.08
Here are some sources of information about the Cascadia subduction zone
- 2014.03.09 M 6.8 Gorda plate p-1
- 2014.03.23 M 6.8 Gorda plate p-2
- 2014.03.13 M 5.2 Gorda Rise
- 2015.11.18 M 3.2 Gorda plate
- 2015.06.01 M 5.8 Blanco fracture zone p-1
- 2015.06.01 M 5.8 Blanco fracture zone p-2 (animations)
- 2015.01.28 M 5.7 Mendocino fault
- 2015.11.01 M 4.3 Mendocino fault
Earthquake Reports
Elsewhere on my website, I summarize these reports by region here. I also post some of the earthquake reports associated with different regions of Cascadia here:
Gorda plate
Blanco fracture zone
Mendocino fault
- This is the digital file of the embedded video below (52 MB mp4)
Here is an animation of the numerical simulation for tsunami inundation at Cannon Beach (Ecola Creek).
This was prepared by Rob Witter (Witter, 2008 ).
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References:
- Atwater, B.F., Musumi-Rokkaku, S., Satake, K., Tsuju, Y., Eueda, K., and Yamaguchi, D.K., 2005. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700—Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America, USGS Professional Paper 1707, USGS, Reston, VA, 144 pp.
- Chaytor, J.D., Goldfinger, C., Dziak, R.P., and Fox, C.G., 2004. Active deformation of the Gorda plate: Constraining deformation models with new geophysical data: Geology v. 32, p. 353-356.
- Goldfinger, C., Nelson, C.H., Morey, A., Johnson, J.E., Gutierrez-Pastor, J., Eriksson, A.T., Karabanov, E., Patton, J., Gràcia, E., Enkin, R., Dallimore, A., Dunhill, G., and Vallier, T., 2012. Turbidite Event History: Methods and Implications for Holocene Paleoseismicity of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, USGS Professional Paper # 1661F. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, 184 pp.
- McCrory, P. A., Blair, J. L., Oppenheimer, D. H., and Walter, S. R., 2006. Depth to the Juan de Fuca slab beneath the Cascadia subduction margin; a 3-D model for sorting earthquakes U. S. Geological Survey
- Nelson, A.R., Kelsey, H.M., Witter, R.C., 2006. Great earthquakes of variable magnitude at the Cascadia subduction zone. Quaternary Research 65, 354-365.
- Patton, J. R., Goldfinger, C., Morey, A. E., Romsos, C., Black, B., Djadjadihardja, Y., and Udrekh, 2013. Seismoturbidite record as preserved at core sites at the Cascadia and Sumatra–Andaman subduction zones, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 833-867, doi:10.5194/nhess-13-833-2013, 2013.
- Plafker, G., 1972. Alaskan earthquake of 1964 and Chilean earthquake of 1960: Implications for arc tectonics in Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 77, p. 901-925.
- Wang, K., Wells, R., Mazzotti, S., Hyndman, R. D., and Sagiya, T., 2003. A revised dislocation model of interseismic deformation of the Cascadia subduction zone Journal of Geophysical Research, B, Solid Earth and Planets v. 108, no. 1.
- Witter, R.C., 200. Prehistoric Cascadia tsunami inundation and runup at Cannon Beach, Clatsop County, Oregon, Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Open File Report O-08-12, 46 pp.