Happy Friday.
Exactly 324 years ago todayโ on Jan. 26, 1700, at 9 pmโ the Juan de Fuca plate slipped an average of 20 meters (66 ft) along a fault rupture about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) long in the Pacific Ocean.
The magnitude 9 earthquake caused a tsunami which struck the west coast of North America and the coast of Japan.
