The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

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

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 ...

The Pacific Northwest, by contrast, only found out about the danger posed by the Cascadia subduction zone in the 1980s. "Preparing for this is like trying to drain an Olympic-sized swimming pool ...

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 ...

Scientists are warning that a 100-foot, Doomsday-style tsunami is primed to hit the US West Coast at any moment. Yet ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, ... By 260 million years ago this subduction seems to have spread and begun pulling down the neighboring Pacific plate.

PORTLAND, Ore. – With a massive Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake looming in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill to help build an earthquake-ready Columbia Boulevard ...

This subduction zone is quite similar to the Sumatra earthquake region. The last Cascadia earthquake was estimated to have a magnitude of 9.0 and occurred in January 1700, generating a Pacific ...

Last week, about 60 miles off the coast near Ferndale, California, the tectonic plates shifted under the Pacific Ocean, sending seismic waves through the ocean floor that radiated onto land and ...

Around 9 p.m. on Jan. 26, 1700, an earthquake the likes of which we haven't seen in the Pacific Northwest struck, sending a tsunami to Japan.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...