The Cascadia subduction zone ... Schematic cross-section of the northern Cascadia convergent margin at southern Vancouver Island. The plate boundary forms a thick duplex structure, within which ...

Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds ...

Researchers using new technology to map the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the U.S. West Coast discovered a new danger zone. Here’s where, and why. Two people killed and 22 injured after Mexican ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault ... making it potentially the most dangerous section. Also in this segment, the seafloor is subducting under the ...

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 major Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the West Coast. During that earthquake, parts of California, Oregon and Washington could shake for up to five minutes, as the Juan de Fuca ...

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.

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 ...

"What we looked at was kind of lesser though and lesser-known consequences of the next earthquake, which is the land subsidence, or the way the land is going to drop down," said Dr. Tina Dura, the ...