# Living With Earthquakes in The Pacific Northwest

- By: Robert S. Yeats
- Publisher: Oregon State University
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Seismology/Living_With_Earthquakes_in_The_Pacific_Northwest_(Yeats))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Seismology/Living_With_Earthquakes_in_The_Pacific_Northwest_(Yeats)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/geo-5892/pdf

In this expanded new edition of Living with Earthquakes, Robert Yeats, a leading authority on earthquakes in California and the Pacific Northwest, describes the threat posed by the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a great earthquake fault which runs for hundreds of miles offshore from British Columbia to northern California. New research reveals subtle movements on the deepest part of this fault every 14-15 months — building up strain toward the next major earthquake.