New York, August 8. Scientific staff of the Geological Survey of the United States of America stated that North America faces destruction and not by human hands.
According to the scientists, from the face of the earth North America can erase the strongest natural disasters. As it turned out, all the fears of experts related to the Cascadia fault zone.
Recall that the fault is in the Pacific Ocean and is located along the northern California to Vancouver Island. A length of the Cascadia is nearly a thousand kilometers. Until the end not studied fault is fraught with very serious, but on the contrary a very serious potential threat to the US.
The tragedy may happen due to a possible shift of the tectonic plates. Such changes in the lithosphere, in turn, may be the main cause of earthquakes and tsunamis such a powerful force that will cause the eruption of volcanoes in the entire continent
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