A 9.2 megathrust earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone would not just rattle the Pacific Northwest, it would redraw the ...

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 ...

A long-feared monster earthquake off California, Oregon and Washington could cause some coastal areas to sink by more than 6 feet, dramatically heightening the risk of flooding and radically reshaping ...

Workers check damage to Interstate 880 in Oakland after it collapsed during the Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989. (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press) They are two of the West Coast's most ...

The megathrust fault zone is like an air hockey table,’ Solomon, a seafloor geologist at the University of Washington, ...

A Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest, and when it hits, scientists now believe, it could cause the San Andreas fault in California to go off. “It would be a very ...

A "Big One" on the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest might trigger a similarly serious earthquake on California's San Andreas Fault, new research suggests. The findings are based on ...

Scientists link a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that shook Humboldt Bay, California, 71 years ago to the "locked" Cascadia Subduction Zone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

They are two of the West Coast's most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: the San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California's North Coast, Oregon, ...

During an earthquake scenario with the highest level of subsidence, or land sink, the area at risk of flooding would expand by 116 square miles. Among the areas at risk after a megaquake along the ...