Major modern-era Puget Sound earthquakes

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Puget_Sound_earthquakesThe University of Washington Seismology Lab, has released a new map of major semi-recent quakes and fault lines around Puget Sound.

Read more about this at: www.heraldnet.com/article/20120722/BLOG48/707229962#Major-modern-quakes-of-Puget-Sound

I still like the more detailed and hyper-linked map at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound_faults, but the above one does have the actual earthquakes mapped too.


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