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'Silent Earthquakes' Ripple Under Cascadia

October 4, 2012 from N3

SEATTLE - Parts of Washington and Oregon are in the midst of silent earthquakes this week. You can't feel this so-called "slow slip" quake and it doesn't cause damage. Still, scientists want to learn more about the recently discovered phenomenon.

Little is certain so far, but there's a possibility these deep tremors could trigger a damaging earthquake or serve as a warning bell for the Big One.

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"This kind of earthquake is distinctly different than the earthquakes we have been watching for a hundred years, because this patch of fault that we're watching takes three weeks to break. Whereas ordinarily something a hundred miles long would take a minute or less to break."

"About half of our instruments can see it," Vidale adds. "It's a very slight level of rattling. I don't think I have ever heard of somebody who we believed could feel it."

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But there's a flip side. The grinding and slippage at depth increases the strain closer to the surface where the North American plate and the oceanic plate are stuck together or "locked." When that offshore fault zone eventually gives way, we get the damaging Big One.

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Schmidt points to a study published in the journal Science that describes how last year's great earthquake and tsunami in Japan was preceded by slow slip and tremor near the epicenter."

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Original Message Thursday November 8 2012, 02:01:51 UTC Vancouver Island, Canada region 6.3 43.0 USGS Feed Detail

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