PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A new study mapping the Cascadia Subduction Zone is giving scientists clues about the state of the fault line as the Pacific Northwest awaits a potentially catastrophic ...

Federal emergency planners treat the Cascadia Subduction Zone as one of the clearest natural-disaster threats in North ...

A massive earthquake off the Pacific Northwest coast is not a distant abstraction but a well-defined geological threat. Along ...

The Pacific Northwest is known for its towering trees, beautiful landscapes and breathtaking coast. But what sits about 70 miles off that coast, and anywhere from 300 to 10,000 ft below the ocean's ...

Groundbreaking research has provided new insight into the tectonic plate shifts that create some of the Earth's largest earthquakes and tsunamis. Groundbreaking research has provided new insight into ...

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.

L'observation inédite d'un processus géologique majeur se déroule actuellement au large des côtes nord-américaines. Pour la première fois, une équipe scientifique a documenté la fragmentation ...

One of the biggest crash scenes on Earth, a subduction zone is a spot where two of the planet's tectonic plates collide and one dives, or subducts, beneath the other, according to the National Oceanic ...

L'ouest américain serait sous la menace de séismes en cascade © Sasa Kadrijevic, Adobe Stock Et si les grands séismes de la côte ouest américaine étaient liés ...

A modeling study suggests a slumbering subduction zone below the Gibraltar Strait is active and could break into the Atlantic Ocean in 20 million years' time, giving birth to an Atlantic "Ring of Fire ...