A new study mapping the Cascadia Subduction Zone is giving scientists clues about the state of the fault line as the Pacific Northwest awaits a potentially catastrophic earthquake. To map the 700 ...

The loss of intertidal wetlands directly impacts ecosystem services such as water filtration, habitat for fisheries and shorebirds, and carbon storage capacity,” says Tina Dura, assistant professor of ...

Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several large US cities in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone.

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West ... ground into tidal mudflats in estuaries along the Pacific Northwest.“That’s going to happen again ...