Many earthquakes in Washington state are linked to the motion of the Juan de Fuca Plate and the North ... This is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. According to the Washington State Department ...

The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.

He said that the region sits atop a plate boundary where the Earth's tectonic plates ... "And that won't have any impact on ...

Both of Wednesday’s earthquakes occurred within the Juan de Fuca Plate, but not quite along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is one of several subduction zones on the Pacific Ring of Fire where ...

The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science ... predictability of earthquakes at the place two tectonic plates meet, called a subduction zone. Currently, there are no concrete warning signs produced ...

Helen Janiszewski, a graduate student at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory's department of Earth and environment sciences, will give a talk titled “Shoreline-crossing Shear-velocity Structure of ...

An enormous underground water store containing three times the volume of Lake Mead has been discovered hidden underneath the Oregon Cascades. This huge aquifer, stored underneath volcanic rocks ...

Unlike mountains on land, the underwater ridge marks the border where the Juan de Fuca and the Pacific oceanic plates separate ... it is far from the Cascadia subduction zone where it could ...

The San Andreas fault in Southern California is a strike-slip fault, meaning two tectonic plates move horizontally against each other. The offshore Cascadia Subduction Zone is known as a megathrust ...