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

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 ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault ... building codes and warning systems to minimize the damage when something happens. A new study promises to greatly ...

This technique uses maps and ... and property damage. The team published their findings in the journal Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. The Cascadia Subduction Zone isn't the only ...