The wake of a legendary earthquake

Kanamori, Hiroo
Heaton, Thomas H.

Hiroo Kanamori is in the Seismological Laboratory, and Thomas H. Heaton is in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science and the Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, California 91125, USA.

Nature 379(6562):p 203-204, January 18, 1996.

Although quiet this century, the Cascadia subduction zone has produced big earthquakes in the past. But how big? An ingenious study involving documents written 300 years ago suggests that they can be giants.