Researchers developed a fourth-generation buoy in Seattle that can detect an earthquake-triggered tsunami 10-15 minutes ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

A recent Virginia Tech study reveals that the Pacific Northwest faces a heightened risk of catastrophic flooding and ...

Unlike gradual climate-driven events, this potential earthquake would “happen within minutes, leaving no time for adaptation ...

It's been nearly 12 decades since the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 killed as many as 3,000 people. Now, one scientist is warning that another major West Coast earthquake could be ...

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. Using ...

(a) Geological units and earthquake distribution of an oceanic subduction zone. The orange shadow beneath the volcanic arc represents partially molten areas and magma channels. (b) Thermal ...

In the past two decades, as public awareness of a great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone has grown, there has been much outreach on shaking hazards and tsunami potential but little focus ...

WASHINGTON — A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its ...

A submarine volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon could erupt for the first time since 2015, spewing “very fluid lava” into the sea where scientists were recently recording more than 1,000 ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) warns that when we experience the next Cascadia subduction zone earthquake, land near the coast may rise or fall ...

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