SEATTLE — University of Washington (UW) researchers published a study Tuesday that mapped and dated past landslides in the region to better understand historical earthquakes along the Seattle Fault.

New maps of more than 1,000 deep-seated landslides in the Puget Lowlands of Washington State provide evidence of the last major earthquake along the Seattle Fault about 1,100 years ago -- and may also ...

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. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skyline of Seattle at sunset. A hazardous fault line that runs south of downtown Seattle may have formed when the edge of the ...

The Pacific Northwest is crawling with quake detectives these days, searching for evidence disguised by the region's dense costume of foliage and glacial remains. Seattle is at the hub of this frenzy ...

Small landslide in the Puget Lowland study area. Scarp of the landslide can been seen at top of photo, as a 1-meter drop below trees. Lack of trees can indicate a landslide area. New maps of more than ...

This press release is available online at: https://news.agu.org/press-release/seattle-fault-may-have-origins-in-an-ancient-tear-in-the-continent The Seattle fault is ...