New research shows that in minutes after the earthquake hits, coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington could drop ...

The uplift is the result of stress building up within the tectonic plates that form the Cascadia subduction zone offshore. At ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

The northwestern coast of the United States could experience major ground subsidence following an earthquake. A recent study ...

The Cascadia subduction zone could pose a major threat to the West Coast if a high magnitude earthquake were to occur, ...

The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that a major earthquake ...

The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, ...

A recent study found that a powerful quake off the Pacific Northwest could force the ground to sink up to 2 m, leading to ...

The uplift is the result of stress building up within the tectonic plates that form the Cascadia subduction zone offshore. At the subduction zone, the Juan de Fuca plate is being forced beneath ...

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five ...

Researchers conduct shallow sediment sampling in the Salmon River estuary in Oregon in 2023. They are using gouge corers and GPS surveying equipment to document stratigraphy and land-level changes ...