Scientists are raising the alarm about a potential mega-tsunami that could devastate parts of the United States. A new study ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so ...

Landslides, earthquakes, and subduction faults could generate 1,000-foot mega-tsunamis, wiping coastal communities off the ...

“In the Cascades, broadly, we’re located along a subduction zone,” explained United States ... trenches that surround a large part of the Pacific Ocean. In the wake of the Mount St. Helens ...

Scientists know that in this specific region of the West Coast fault in the U.S., massive earthquakes happened in the past, and they could happen again at any time.. Dangers of the Cascadia Subduction ...

A major West Coast earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone could have an unexpected and destructive side-effect for shoreside communities throughout the region.. Research recently published in ...

This map (left image) indicates the sites of the 24 estuaries along the coast in the Cascadia subduction zone where Tina Dura and her team took geological core samples.

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.

The first warning system, a series of tidal stations, was installed in the Pacific after a tsunami ... is called the Cascadia subduction zone. Subduction is the process by which an ocean plate ...

The Cascadia subduction zone stretches from northern California all the way to Canada's British Columbia. It also sits under Oregon and Washington and extends off shore into the Pacific Ocean.