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 ...

This should have West Coasters shaking in their shoes.

“If the Cascadia Subduction Zone does rupture, it’s going to be probably the most devastating event we’ve ever seen in the continental United States,” McDougall said. McDougall said a ...

A network of sensors now guards the West Coast of the United States and Canada ... is called the Cascadia subduction zone. Subduction is the process by which an ocean plate nudges under a ...

Kerwin Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons In the United States, seismic activity is not confined to the ...

In the United States, a country that spans diverse geological formations ... has prompted ongoing scientific inquiry into the Cascadia Subduction Zone and highlights the inherent seismic risks for ...

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

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