When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West ... The last of those major quakes occurred in 1700. The National Seismic Hazard Model suggests there ...

There is a sleeping giant off the coast of the Pacific Northwest that could cause chaos to North America when it eventually ...

On Jan. 26, 1700, one of the largest earthquakes ... for the next major change to the Earth's crust. The next Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake will likely be just as large as the last one ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

Researchers developed a fourth-generation buoy in Seattle that can detect an earthquake-triggered tsunami 10-15 minutes ...

And they are a direct product of the earthquake in 1700. During the big events ... with warning systems for the Cascadia zone. “The Cascadia Subduction Zone is tens of miles offshore in the ...

A “great earthquake,” with a magnitude higher than 8.0, has not happened along the Cascadia subduction zone since January 26, 1700, when a magnitude 9 quake struck the region. Dura and her ...

The tsunami wave from an anticipated earthquake off the West Coast could reach 100 feet and permanently flood parts of the ...

The 1700 megathrust earthquake is considered to be one ... earthquake and tsunami threat potential of the Cascadia Subduction Zone is “still a work in progress” for the team behind this ...

The physical evidence from the Douglas fir tree rings confirms modeling that depicts the reach of the January 1700 quake, which was the last major earthquake to hit the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

However, a great earthquake — those with a seismic magnitude over 8.0 — has not occurred along the Cascadia subduction zone since Jan. 26, 1700, making coastal geologic records of past ...