The deadly earthquakes in the Samoan Islands and Indonesia rose from complex subduction zones -- similar to the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest coast. Such violent earthquakes ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created... Read Story ...

Cascadia Subduction Zone: Are Portland and Seattle prepared for an earthquake and tsunami? Updated: Jul. 22, 2010, ... has led many to wonder if the Pacific Northwest is next.

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. Pacific Northwest fault zone could trigger a catastrophic 5-minute quake, new research warns Skip to main content ...

Subduction zones are where a tectonic plate dives underneath another plate. Stress builds up between the two plates over time. At Cascadia, wedges made from sediments nearly two miles thick pile ...

The last rupture was a Sumatra-style, simultaneous unzipping along entire length of the hazardous subduction zone in 1700. "(This) paper is important because it is an excellent synthesis of two ...

The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, but that could reverse in an instant.

She hopes the new data will help determine how a Cascadia Subduction Zone quake could impact the Pacific Northwest, and what can be done to plan for it. Stay Connected Like Us ...

But they can’t say exactly when the Pacific Northwest’s “Big One” could strike. The last great earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone occurred in January 1700, and big events are ...

The other disaster potentially in the offing is the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. This scenario involves a magnitude 9.0 or worse earthquake in the Pacific Northwest that would be felt all ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 ...