Hi Russell:

The go to book for this is "Full Rip 9.0".  It's interesting how they figur=
ed out that this happened, how big is was, &Etc.
This is about the subduction zone fault between Cape Mendocino and the Cana=
dian border where the plate under the ocean=20
is butting heads with the continent.  It's been doing this for about 500 ye=
ars (since the last mag 9 quake) and a lot of=20
compressive force has built up.

This is very different from the classical California quake which is a strik=
e-slip where the two plates are sliding in=20
opposite directions.  These make for quakes like the '06 which was no where=
 near a bad as the subduction type quakes.

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