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 ...

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five ...

The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that a major earthquake ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone runs for almost 600 miles along the ... They say this part is potentially the most dangerous section as the fault line is quite smooth. When tectonic plates are ...

Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia subduction zone, two pieces of the Earth ... largest and most destructive earthquakes. That section of the fault is also shallow and closer ...

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 ...