An undersea volcano off the Oregon coast will likely erupt in 2025, and scientists can use the lessons learned from ...

A 7.0 earthquake off the coast of Northern California in early December triggered a tsunami warning for parts of the ...

Using underwater mapping techniques, scientists have mapped the Cascadia Subduction Zone - a 600-mile fault line extending ...

A silent colossus lurks off the Pacific coast, threatening hundreds of miles of coastline with tsunamis and devastating ...

"We're at more than 324 years since the last one." The risk comes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is a fault line that spans approximately 600 miles from southern British Columbia to ...

And there was the catastrophic mega-tsunami of 1700, originating from a magnitude 9 earthquake over the Cascadia fault system, which runs offshore from Northern California to Vancouver Island for ...

The fault zone responsible for Thursday's 7.0 magnitude ... ripping boats from their moorings and damaging docks. In contrast, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which extends from northern California ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate ... The intersection of the deformation front with the SW-trending Nootka transform fault, which is characterized by high levels of ...

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and the South Whidbey fault. Each of these local faults have the potential to produce a 7 magnitude earthquake or greater. Yet, the biggest or mega earthquake threat is from the Cascadia ...

Two SHIPS seismic reflection lines crossed the Seattle fault zone, which comprises a number of individual fault splays, line PS-1 in the west and line PS-2 in the east close to downtown Seattle (Fig 1 ...

Scientists have warned for years that when the fault snaps, a major earthquake ... evaluates possible effects of a tsunami caused by the Cascadia Subduction Zone. In this case, tsunami waves ...