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More Evidence Humans Migrated to the Americas via Coastal Route

by Terri Cook 7 February 201928 October 2022

A new chronology shows that ice-free areas existed along the British Columbia coast earlier than previously thought.

Southern Alaska’s Lisianski Inlet, near the site of a systematic survey of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault.
Posted inScience Updates

A Closer Look at an Undersea Source of Alaskan Earthquakes

by D. S. Brothers, P. Haeussler, Amy E. East, U. ten Brink, B. Andrews, P. Dartnell, N. Miller and J. Kluesner 15 August 20178 November 2021

A systematic survey offers a striking portrait of movement along a 500-kilometer-long undersea section of the Queen Charlotte–Fairweather fault off the coast of southeastern Alaska.

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Assessing Earthquake Risks in the Pacific Northwest

by Randy Showstack 28 October 201428 October 2022

While megaquakes occasionally occur along the Cascadia margin, smaller but more frequent crustal earthquakes are a more immediate threat, according to a natural hazards expert.

Posted inScience Updates

Detecting Near-Field Tsunamis off the Coast of British Columbia

by T. L. Insua and K. Moran 16 September 201428 October 2022

A Near-Field Tsunami Initiative for the Coast of British Columbia;
Port Alberni, British Columbia, 27–28 March 2014

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