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

The league of experts and scientists who have spent decades keeping watch is being decimated by the Trump administration’s staffing cuts.

A new study has identified three states in the US could be hit by an earthquake and mega-tsunami in a handful of years.

Researchers found that a potential powerful earthquake combined with rising sea levels could lead to a mega tsunami.

There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the ...

When Washingtonians talk about the possibility of a major earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the conversation ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault that stretches around 600 miles from Northern California to British Columbia. Most earthquakes that strike this area go unnoticed because it is located 70 to ...

(Oregon Department of Transportation/Flickr) If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread ...

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread flooding from rising seas that follows will take ...

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread flooding from rising seas that follows will ...

The Cascadia subduction zone is an ... pointed out that current tsunami hazard maps don’t take into account future sea-level rise; a relatively small earthquake could generate a tsunami with ...

A major West Coast earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone could have an unexpected and destructive ... The study pointed out that current tsunami hazard maps don’t take into account future ...