Two of the biggest seismic threats on the West Coast — the Cascadia Subduction Zone and the San Andreas Fault — may be more ...

The relationship between the sites means an earthquake in one zone can trigger an earthquake in the other in a phenomenon ...

The so-called “Big One” or Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake expected to trigger disruptive quakes throughout the West ...

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

New research offers the theory that the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating ...

The Philippine Trench is known to cause strong earthquakes with magnitudes above 7.0 along the country's eastern coast, even capable of generating two or more earthquakes within a short period of time ...

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die and form new geological boundaries. With unprecedented clarity, researchers ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake last hit the coasts of Oregon, Washington and California in 1700, with an estimated ...

LSU geologist Brandon Shuck led a study that discovered a tear in a tectonic plate off the coast of Vancouver Island.

They are two of the West Coast's most destructive generators of huge quakes: the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia ...

A Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest, and when it hits, scientists now believe, it could ...