The Cascadia Subduction Zone looks a little different than researchers thought. Here's what that means for "The Big One." ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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FEMA is looking at reducing its scope to only responding to large-scale disasters, like a potential major earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone or large tornadoes, Bence said. The federal agency ...

Scientists believe a major earthquake will eventually rupture the Cascadia subduction zone, a fault that runs from Vancouver Island in Canada to northern California, and predictions for that rupture ...