Flooding during a Cascadia region earthquake would alter the topography and ecosystems of the coastal region for years to ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

Newly-released research led by the University of Washington (UW) showed that a feature scientists hypothesized was present along the Cascadia Subduction Zone is missing in places. What does that mean ...

Scientists compared sediment deposits created by underwater landslides from earthquakes within the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

The pressure keeps building below the Earth’s surface off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, and a multi-layered disaster could strike at any time. A huge earthquake is brewing along the Cascadia ...

These are two very different fault systems, but the sediment record suggests that in the past, at least three San Andreas ...

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 years, ...

Researchers named the spring "Pythia’s Oasis" for Ancient Greece's Pythia, an oracle who sat in a temple above a crack in the ...

San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests – Nation and ...

The so-called “Big One” or Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake expected to trigger disruptive quakes throughout the West Coast could cause more damage than previously estimated if it sets off quakes ...