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

Imagine a massive wall of water slamming into the West Coast, giving residents just minutes to escape. This nightmare ...

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 ...

A so-called "doomsday tsunami" is likely to hit the United States in the near future, but scientists now say there is a ...

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 ...

"Along the Washington, Oregon, and northern California coasts, the next great Cascadia subduction zone earthquake could cause up to 2 m [6.5 feet] of sudden coastal subsidence, dramatically ...

The Pacific Northwest is being taken for a ride. At the Cascadia Subduction Zone—a 700-mile fault that runs all the way from California to British Columbia—two giant tectonic plates are locked ...

To understand why the ground drops or rises in great subduction zone earthquakes like Cascadia, think elasticity. Stretch a rubber band or other elastic material and let go. It returns to its ...

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread flooding from rising seas that follows will ...

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 ...

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