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The Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake may not have brought the same devastation as previous shocks, but a far more deadly seismic event is looming for the US West Coast.
Scientists warn of a mega-Tsunami from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, threatening California and Seattle with devastating ...
Scientists are warning of a potentially catastrophic mega-tsunami that could strike parts of the US Pacific Coast, triggered ...
Southern Washington, northern Oregon, and northern California are the regions which are most vulnerable to flooding from a ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A new study mapping the Cascadia Subduction Zone is giving scientists clues about the state of the fault line as the Pacific Northwest awaits a potentially catastrophic ...
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a 620-mile-long fault that stretches from British Columbia to Northern California, and pressure is building daily.
PORTLAND, Ore. – A new study by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) says a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could injure as many as 27,000 people in Clackamas ...
A recent study indicates a 15% chance of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake striking the Cascadia Subduction Zone within the next 50 years, potentially triggering a catastrophic mega-tsunami. This could ...
Why is Cascadia Subduction Zone important for the US West Coast after the 6.3 magnitude earthquake today? Today’s 6.3 magnitude earthquake has sparked fear the ‘Big One’ could hit anytime now.
The last time the Cascadia subduction zone burped up a massive, zone-wide earthquake was way back in 1700. No one knows when it will happen again: it could be this year or more than 100 years from ...
, subduction zones produce the largest earthquakes which can exceed magnitude 9.0. Cascadia has a history of significant quakes every 400 years and experts predict that after years of storing up ...