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 ...

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

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 seismometers ...

A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...

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

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 ...

A major Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the West Coast. During that earthquake, parts of California, Oregon and Washington could shake for up to five minutes, as the Juan de Fuca ...

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

Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia subduction zone, two pieces of the Earth ... they used the data to construct a comprehensive map of the underwater geology in a study published ...

When Washingtonians talk about the possibility of a major earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the conversation ... the threat of casualties, building damage and flooding.