The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a major fault that runs offshore from Northern ... professor of geosciences at Virginia Tech told the San Francisco Chronicle. While a tsunami's devastation is ...

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

Tremors—slow, silent fault movements deep underground—may reveal how ... This pattern is evident in the Cascadia subduction zone, which extends from Northern California, through Oregon and Washington, ...

Dr. Jay Patton of the California Geological Survey joins the show to discuss why land may suddenly jump or fall, the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A major earthquake waiting to strike the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn’t the only natural disaster looming in the Pacific Northwest, new research shows. A powerful quake ...

EUGENE, Ore. (NBC) -- When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet ...

A 700-mile-long fault line that runs along the West ... New research found that a 8.0 magnitude or higher quake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, combined with rising sea levels, would cause ...

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward shore.