A significant earthquake measuring M6.5 on the Richter scale occurred south of the Fiji Islands on April 13, 2025. This deep-seated tremor, reported by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and ...

The Pacific Coast is tiptoeing around not one but two of the largest seismic triggers of the region’s modern history.

Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the locations where the largest deposits of strategic metals, such as copper, ...

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The Hikurangi Subduction Zone is where the Pacific plate drops westward under ... Last year, Civil Defence updated its tsunami evacuation map to a single blue zone, highlighting which settlements ...

Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several ...

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Also see: Southern California fire danger zones ... new fire maps won’t impede rebuild permitting Firefighters work to put out a fire in the rubble of a home that burned down on Pacific Coast ...

Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps evaluate “hazard,” not “risk,” Cal Fire says. Here’s the agency’s definition of both: “‘Hazard‘ is based on the physical conditions that create a ...