Abrupt earthquake-triggered land changes are not a new idea. The earliest written accounts of great earthquakes causing the ...

One of the most dangerous fault lines that threatens the United States lurks off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, capable ...

Across all the locations that the group measured, the low estimates held that the ground would sink by 0.23 to 0.67 meters, depending on the area. The medium estimates ranged from 0.46 to 1.34 meters ...

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault that stretches around ... analyzed how such an earthquake could transform the Pacific Northwest, and it's not just powerful waves from a tsunami that ...

They tend to inflate like a balloon in between eruptions. At Axial, the sea floor is actually rising, and that’s a big signal ...

The Axial Seamount is one of the most active but least well-known volcanoes in the Pacific and all signs point to it erupting ...

It's not just about loss of life and homes or economic damage; critical wetlands will be gone for good. Scientists issue ...

The Cascadia subduction zone has not experienced a major earthquake since 1700 ... Published in PNAS, these results provide a more comprehensive view of the challenges ahead for Pacific Northwest ...