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Which city is in greater danger of being hit with a 9.0 magnitude earthquake San Francisco or Seattle?
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∙ 15y ago
Seattle is located very close to the Cascadia subduction zone, where earthquakes of magnitude 9.0 have occurred in the past. The San Andreas fault which bypasses San Francisco, is not capable of such an earthquake due to it being a transform fault, where the maximum magnitude would be about 7.8-8.0.
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