From time to time, over millennia, northwestern North America has experienced huge earthquakes. These events may be preceded by tell-tale subsidence, but the evidence is devilishly difficult to decipher.
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Bourgeois, J. A movement in four parts?. Nature 440, 430–431 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/440430a
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