Groundbreaking Discovery in Offshore Sediment Cores Two fault systems on North America's West Coast – the Cascadia subduction ...

Geologists warn that a long-overdue megathrust earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could unleash a massive tsunami and widespread infrastructure collapse. This video explains why the Pacific ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. New research suggests the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating ...

They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: The San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California’s North Coast, Oregon, ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault — operated on separate geologic stages. One dives, one ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon scientists are leading the world in tsunami research, helping communities better understand and prepare for one of the most destructive natural forces on Earth. “It has ...

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Port Angeles faces significant tsunami danger from a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake that could send waves 16 feet high or more crashing into its waterfront in less than an ...

In 1954, a powerful earthquake shook Northern California near Humboldt Bay, baffling scientists for decades. Most quakes in the region come from the Gorda Plate, but this one didn’t fit the pattern.

Eight years ago, Erik Thorsen — CEO of Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria, Ore. — received a warning that no hospital administrator wants to hear: A big earthquake could cause his hospital's ...

They are two of the West Coast's most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: the San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California's North Coast, Oregon, ...