Media Advisory: Cascadia Quake and Orphan Tsunami — Public Lecture
MENLO PARK, Calif. — One winter's night in the year 1700, a mysterious tsunami flooded fields and washed away houses in Japan. It arrived without the warning that a nearby earthquake usually provides. Samurai, merchants and villagers wrote of the event, but nearly three centuries would pass before geological discoveries linked the tsunami to the subduction zone that runs along the Pacific coast of southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and northern California. Today, this Trans-Pacific detective story guides preparations for future earthquakes and tsunamis in North America's Cascadia region.
What:
Illustrated presentation: “The Giant Cascadia Earthquake of January 26, 1700: Detective Stories from North America and Japan”
Who:
Brian Atwater, USGS geologist
When:
Thursday, July 30, 2015
12:00 p.m. — Lecture preview for USGS employees and news media representatives
7:00 p.m.— Public lecture open to all
(Both presentations will be live-streamed online, and archived for later viewing.)
Where:
U.S. Geological Survey
Rambo Auditorium, Bldg. 3, 2nd floor
345 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, Calif.
Book:
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700—Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America
Get Our News
These items are in the RSS feed format (Really Simple Syndication) based on categories such as topics, locations, and more. You can install and RSS reader browser extension, software, or use a third-party service to receive immediate news updates depending on the feed that you have added. If you click the feed links below, they may look strange because they are simply XML code. An RSS reader can easily read this code and push out a notification to you when something new is posted to our site.