The Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is a 600-mile-wide fault system extending from Northern California to Vancouver Island, Canada, is the epicenter of a potentially disastrous seismic event. A ...

A powerful underwater volcano known as Axial Seamount off the Oregon coast may erupt. Though scientists say it poses no ...

Many parts of Oregon are under threat of natural disaster. One risk is unique – it is a statewide burden shouldered by one ...

Illustration of the Cascadia subduction zone, a region where the patterns examined in this ... These outside disturbances can either speed up or delay tremor activity, depending on timing and location ...

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...

These outside disturbances can either speed up or delay tremor activity, depending on timing and location ... pattern is evident in the Cascadia subduction zone, which extends from Northern ...

Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located approximately 300 miles due west of Astoria, Oregon, is showing signs ...

A shipping container stands at the corner of Beverly Cleary K-8 School in Northeast Portland, meant to be cracked open if the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake strikes during school hours.

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

There is danger lurking on the sea floor off the Pacific Northwest’s coast: After centuries of two tectonic plates pushing up against each other, the Cascadia subduction zone that runs from ...