Although quiet this century, the Cascadia subduction zone has produced big earthquakes in the past. But how big? An ingenious study involving documents written 300 years ago suggests that they can be giants.
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Kanamori, H., Heaton, T. The wake of a legendary earthquake. Nature 379, 203–204 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/379203a0
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