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Saskia Hatvany/OPBThe Cascade Subduction Zone affects where the ocean meets the land, and that land is rising in some parts of the Oregon Coast. -
Oregon Department of Transportation/Flickr‘Big One’ coupled with rising ocean could leave many in Northwest living in flood zones, study findsMore than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the researchers found.
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