GEOG-100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cascade Volcanoes, Landslide, Love Wave
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P waves" are similar to sound waves and move very quickly causing the most damage at the surface. 3. which of the following volcanoes along the cascade volcanic arc" has been the most active over the last 4,000 years: mt. st helens, shasta, baker, mt. rainier. 5. typically, during a cascadia megathrust" earthquake, these relatively deep events occur when the continental north american plate jumps" to the east over the oceanic. Juan de fuca plate from anywhere between 30 to 100 feet: true b. false. 1700, it would appear that the region may now be due" for its next big earthquake: true, false. 7. the largest number of aftershocks in the three days following the tohoku earthquake of 2011 were mostly located on the: western side of the island of honshu b. eastern side of the island of honshu. 8. in 2012, the earthquake research committee of japan" estimated that there was a.
