Scientists discovered a crack under the sea off Vancouver Island, NFZ in Cascadia region, that could alter Pacific subduction ...

Flooding during a Cascadia region earthquake would alter the topography and ecosystems of the coastal region for years to ...

The State of Oregon has developed interactive maps to help residents and visitors understand how a tsunami could impact coastal communities. The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries ...

Newly-released research led by the University of Washington (UW) showed that a feature scientists hypothesized was present along the Cascadia Subduction Zone is missing in places. What does that mean ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

A careful analysis of the complex boundary where four tectonic plates meet reveals that one of the slabs is tearing itself ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

(a) Geological units and earthquake distribution of an oceanic subduction zone. The orange shadow beneath the volcanic arc represents partially molten areas and magma channels. (b) Thermal structure ...

Jessica DePaolis (second from left) and the team of researchers studied and compared sedimentary core samples in Montague Island, Alaska, and found evidence that four of the past eight earthquakes ...

The federal government promised an Oregon hospital millions of dollars to help prepare for an earthquake. They're still ...

Early data coming in from a massive, four-year deployment of seismometers onshore and offshore in the Pacific Northwest are giving scientists a clearer picture of the Cascadia subduction zone, a ...