During the devastating earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand this weekend, horrified viewers around the world watched a ...

A new study mapping the Cascadia Subduction Zone is giving scientists clues about the state of the fault line as the Pacific ...

Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several large US cities in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone.

This week, it makes far more sense to test an aspect of our tsunami system that didn’t perform very well last December — who ...

That earthquake, the one we are all dreading, is the event that kicks off Pattee’s debut novel, “Tilt,” out Tuesday from ...

Image 1: Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake cycle recorded in salt marsh stratigraphy ... This second scenario seems most likely because historical maps indicate that most salt marshes were fully ...

Washington hasn’t seen a major earthquake since the 6.8 magnitude Nisqually earthquake in 2001. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, capable of producing a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, last produced a ...

With Washington’s location along the Cascadia Subduction Zone and several active fault lines in the state, more than 1,000 earthquakes occur in the state each year, according to the Washington ...