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 ...

The loss of intertidal wetlands directly impacts ecosystem services such as water filtration, habitat for fisheries and ...

The tsunami wave from an anticipated earthquake off the West Coast could reach 100 feet and permanently flood parts of the coast.

This warning is for a terrifying tsunami (mega tsunami) that could devastate large parts of America. The magnitude of this ...

A new study from Virginia Tech warns that large swaths of the Pacific Northwest, including Northern California, Oregon, and ...

Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the mainland West Coast would be at risk if an earthquake erupts along the Cascadia subduction ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

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 ...

In the past two decades, as public awareness of a great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone has grown ... causing additional damage to infrastructure and exacerbating tsunami impacts.

(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 ...

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 ...