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September 4, 2013
New quake, tsunami data for Northwest
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Scientists are just back from a monthlong research cruise in the Pacific Ocean off Washington state, where they were trying to find the stickiest point on a section of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the huge undersea fault that breaks loose every few hundred years and generates a massive tsunami and earthquake.
Paul Johnson, a professor of geophysics at the University of Washington, was one of the principal scientists. He says it will be some time before the data from deep-sea measurements of heat and gas emissions is fully analyzed.
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