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One ‘Really Big One’ After Another
The disaster caused by a predicted large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could be compounded by shaking along the San Andreas fault in California, scientists warned.

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The San Andreas fault near Santa Margarita, Calif.Credit...David McNew/Getty Images

By Sarah Scoles

Oct. 12, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

In the world’s tectonic nightmares, a giant earthquake on the San Andreas fault in California looms large. But farther north, another geologic fault — the Cascadia subduction zone — gives disaster planners even more to worry about. The possibility that Cascadia could shake the Northwest in the near future was highlighted in a 2015 New Yorker article that called the hypothetical event “The Really Big One.”

In a study published last month in the journal Geosphere, earthquake scientists suggest that the two faults could have an intertwined fate. Their paper suggests that Cascadia earthquakes of the recent geological past have triggered earthquakes along the San Andreas fault too.

“Cascadia is often talked about as, ‘When it goes, it’ll be the biggest.....

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