Washington state has seen several recent earthquakes ranging from small tremors near Tacoma and Vashon Island to larger ...

This list of stories illustrates the region's seismic activity, including the possibility of a much larger Cascadia subduction ... past each other in a “megathrust” earthquake.

A major earthquake waiting to strike the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn’t the only natural disaster looming in the Pacific ...

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

A megathrust is a very large earthquake that occurs in a subduction zone, resulting in a magnitude of 8 to 9. She said that the BMKG had also mapped 13 zones in Indonesia with the highest ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of North America spans from northern California to southern British Columbia. This subduction zone can produce earthquakes as large as magnitude 9 and ...

The Cascadia subduction ... a major earthquake, their research found. Similar instances of land subsidence on the order of 2 m or greater occurred after Chile’s magnitude 9.5 earthquake in ...

Researchers have found that gradual sinking from a major earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone ... The study reviews the potential impacts of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, similar to ...

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a quake of that seismic magnitude has not occurred along the Cascadia subduction zone since Jan. 26, 1700. Looking at records from the last 7,000 years, there have been 11 great earthquakes every ...