Axial Seamount off Oregon's coast is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest, about 300 miles offshore and just ...

An undersea volcano off Oregon’s coast will likely erupt in 2025, scientists say. Known as Axial Seamount, it’s the most ...

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

(tense music) Long ago here in the Pacific Northwest, a giant earthquake struck the Cascadia fault, a seismically active tectonic plate boundary off the coast. Almost instantly, the landscape ...

A major offshore subduction zone (the Cascadia Subduction Zone ... what is essentially the offshore extension of the San Andreas Fault, known as the Mendocino Fracture Zone.

“The tsunami is really going to be the killer when it comes to Cascadia,” Rizzo said, using the name for the Pacific Northwest’s fault line. Coastal Oregonians will need to flee to higher ground. They ...

There are fears that sooner or later, the entire Pacific coast of northern California, Oregon and Washington is due to suffer ...

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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 ...