Caption Map shows the Cascadia Subduction Zone along the Pacific Northwest coast, with a shaded area encompassing the onshore and offshore areas where seismometers were located. Data from the ...

For hundreds of years, the Cascadia subduction zone has been quiet. But on Jan. 26, 1700, the earth shook. Japanese history records show an “orphan” tsunami traveled across the Pacific ...

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

Tsunamis have hit Washington and the Puget Sound region in the past, and they will happen again in the future.

Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several ...

Image 1: Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake cycle recorded in salt marsh stratigraphy and computed tomography (CT) scan of a 80 cm sediment core collected from an Oregon salt marsh displaying a ...

1. Figure 1: Map of the northern Cascadia subduction zone showing the distribution of earthquakes in the subducting Juan de Fuca plate and the locations of seismic cross-sections. Green dashed line ...