Liz VanBoskirk, a field engineer studying tectonic events along the Cascadia and Juan de Fuca subduction zones, is the featured guest at the next Science Café, sponsored by the Sequim Education Foundation.

The event is at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, at the Paradise Restaurant, 703 N. Sequim Ave., and is free and open to the public.

VanBoskirk’s presentation is entitled “Episodic Tremor and Slip Events in Cascadia as Observed by Earthscope’s Plate Boundary Observatory’s Borehole Strainmeters.”

VanBoskirk, who works for UNAVCO — a nonprofit university-governed consortium that facilitates geoscience research and education — will talk about observing the subduction zone is crucial for understanding the mechanism of a potential 8.0 magnitude earthquake that occurs on the interval of 500-600 years in the Pacific Northwest, the most recent occurring in 1700.