Experts are sounding the alarm about a potential mega-earthquake that could rock the US Pacific Northwest — and it may be ...

Nearly a mile deep, the Pacific Ocean volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only ...

The University of British Columbia research team developed a new structural system that helps high-rise buildings withstand major earthquakes ... expected from the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

A team led by Tina Dura, an assistant professor of geosciences at Virginia Tech, used several models to gauge the extent to which land would be lost in the event of a great earthquake ... of life and ...

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

An earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could cause parts of the coast to sink several feet, creating ongoing flooding risks in previously safe areas.

This is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. According to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), earthquakes happen in Washington every day, but most are too small to be felt.

To me, those probabilities are high enough that we should be preparing for the effects of such an earthquake." The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault line where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is ...

Could a monster earthquake sink a portion of Northern California? A new study calculates the risk of where and how much land ...