A 3.6-magnitude earthquake was the largest so far in a swarm of quakes running along the Seattle fault near Bremerton over the past week. The quake was reported at 12:35 a.m. Thursday. There have ...

SEATTLE — A new study published in the journal Tectonics reveals new details about how the Seattle fault zone may have developed more than 50 million years ago. According to the study, a rock ...

SEATTLE – With the Cascadia Subduction Zone parked off the coast and shallow faults lurking under most major cities, the Puget Sound area faces a daunting array of seismic scenarios. A new study ...

SEATTLE — Tsunami waves from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake on the Seattle Fault would only take minutes to reach the greater Seattle area, according to a newly released study.

One analysis estimates a magnitude 6.7 quake on the Seattle fault today could cause $33 billion in damage and kill as many as 1,600 people. Washington’s shallow faults are the result of a kind ...

Tsunami waves from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake on the Seattle Fault would only take minutes to reach the greater Seattle area, according to a study released in 2022.

Experts say the last known earthquake to happen in the Seattle Fault happened about 1,100 years ago. Geological evidence shows that it was powerful enough to thrust the beach at Restoration Point ...

The Seattle fault zone is a network of shallow faults slicing through the lowlands of Puget Sound, threatening to create damaging earthquakes for the more than four million people who live there.

The magnitude 4.0 earthquake that rattled people awake across the Puget Sound region Wednesday probably struck on the western edge of the Seattle Fault, according to geologists.

The last earthquake on this fault took place about 1,100 years ago and the fault is considered to still be active. The research considered a worst-case, low-likelihood scenario triggered by a 7.5 ...

An estimate in 2005 found that even a magnitude 6.7 earthquake along the Seattle fault today could cause 1,600 deaths and destroy roughly 10,000 buildings, resulting in a total economic loss of ...