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Tsunami from the Seattle Fault Zone
July 17, 2012 | The Seattle Times

About 1000 years ago the Seattle Fault Zone produced an earthquake of about magnitude 7. University of Washington graduate student, Beth Arcos, is examining field evidence of a large tsunami associated with that earthquake.


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