It's a matter of when -- not if -- a significant earthquake will shake the Pacific Northwest, and a new study says some areas ...

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread flooding from rising seas that follows will take ca ...

More than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the ...

A Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could cause long-lasting changes to Washington’s landscape, coastline and floodplain, a new study says.

If the ‘Big One’ earthquake hits the West Coast it’s gonna sink the land, experts warn - The region is overdue for a major ...

New research shows that in minutes after the earthquake hits, coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington could drop ...

A new study warns that a megathrust earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could cause coastal land to sink ...

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

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A Japanese researcher says it is likely that an underground mountain beneath Tokyo Bay has been triggering frequent earthquakes in ... that of the Pacific plate's subduction.

At the same time, the researchers found that the width of creep zones at these earthquakes are much narrower, both near the surface and 10–25 kilometers deep in the earth. The creep zones ...