The tsunami may last hours.
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It's also annoying because that paper is about sudden land subsidence and not tsunamis or quake probabilities as such. They do note established quake models and that if you are suddenly two metres lower than you were before your tsunami risk just increased a lot. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Check out the August 2025 edition of CRESCENT's Quarterly Newsletter: Seismic Moment
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New documentary short just dropped!

@pbs.org updated their video about a Cascadia subduction (not seduction) zone earthquake and tsunami with new research from @diatomdura.bsky.social and team!

youtu.be/OQNoO1Ua-q0

How many likes to get you to stop? 😆 I joke, it’s interesting to follow. Also terrifying this is all in your brain.

An opinion piece by Diego Melgar on the recent Russia earthquake and early warning systems was featured on MSNBC today. Check it out here: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

I enjoyed this wide ranging (and timely!) conversation about earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone on the Risky Science podcast. Check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/7l21...

Just to illustrate how long waves from a #tsunami can keep going, this is a tide gauge record from Crescent City CA (known for its sensitivity to tsunami waves due to bathymetric and resonance effects) showing significant wave activity still continues 24+ hours after their first arrival. 🧪⚒️

Some quotes from @diegosismologo.bsky.social and me in here 🌊🌊

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So heads up for compound hazards from subduction zones both near and far!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We've shown this in a few recent studies—one showing how sea-level rise will make distant tsunamis from Alaska more impactful in southern California, and another showing how earthquake-driven coastal subsidence will flood far more land in places like Oregon and Washington as the century progresses.

As sea level rises, coastal communities are starting out closer to the water—before any earthquake or tsunami occurs. So when a tsunami does hit, it doesn’t need to be as big to cause flooding. And when an earthquake causes coastal subsidence, future sea-level rise will amplify flood exposure.

Totally agree. Climate change isn’t causing big subduction earthquakes. But it is raising baseline sea levels along our coasts, and that makes the impacts of those earthquakes and tsunamis worse when they do happen.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another quick comparison of the 1952 #Kamchatka #earthquake from MacInnes et al. (2010) with today’s M8.8 event. The aftershock areas are similar, as well as one region of foreshocks. The updated USGS rupture model has a max slip of 10m versus 12m for 1952, with SW rupture direction. 🧪⚒️

Direct link here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Excited to see this product from our Cascadia Paleoseismology Working Group (CPAL) out! Huge shoutout to Lydia Staisch for spearheading this effort along with lots of input from the coastal paleoseismology community. Check it out for all of your paleoseismic dataset needs!