The Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is a 600-mile-wide fault system ... and a tsunami will arrive around 15 to 30 minutes at certain locations. The economic and human fatalities of a mega-tsunami ...

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

A near-certain disaster looms for California, but there are real things people can do to prepare. Here's what to know about ...

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 ...

A near-certain disaster looms for California, but there are real things people can do to prepare. Here's what to know about the risks.

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.

Also, eruptions at Axial Seamount aren’t expected to trigger a long-feared magnitude 9.0 earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone. Such an earthquake would ... a prolific erupter in part because of ...

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 ...