The trees that died in the Pacific Northwest after the great earthquake of 1700 were killed by ________.
A. seawater after faulting dropped the land below sea level
B. a cloud of methane that was released from sediments during the shaking
C. seawater after a tsunami rushed onshore
D. the liquefaction of their underlying soils
E. mass wasting events in the days after the earthquake
Answer: A
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