Cascadia

[kas-key-dee-uh]

noun

1. another term for the Pacific Northwest, often used to refer to this area specifically as an environmentally significant bioregion.

Example Sentences

To better understand these deep events, the team examined seismic data from the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Northwest, where the Juan de Fuca plate is sliding beneath the North American plate.

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The Cascadia region now offers a direct look at how that process happens: through step-by-step tearing, not sudden collapse.

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Cascadia remains capable of generating very large earthquakes and tsunamis.

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Off the coast of Vancouver Island, in the Cascadia region, scientists have now seen that "train wreck" unfolding.

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North of Cape Mendocino, California, the Juan de Fuca plate dives beneath North America along a megathrust subduction zone known as Cascadia.

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