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

The northwestern coast of the United States could experience major ground subsidence following an earthquake. A recent study ...

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

One of the most dangerous fault lines that threatens the United States lurks off the coast ... of coastal regions forever. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault that stretches around 600 miles ...

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 seismologist with the United States Geological Survey who was not involved in the study. “I’ll be busy now.” For hundreds of years, the Cascadia subduction zone has been quiet. But on Jan ...

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

A major West Coast earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone could have an unexpected and destructive ... The study pointed out that current tsunami hazard maps don’t take into account future ...

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward shore.

1. Figure 1: Map of the northern Cascadia subduction zone showing the distribution of earthquakes in the subducting Juan de Fuca plate and the locations of seismic cross-sections. Green dashed line ...