The PNW may be hit with a major earthquake in the next 50 years. There is no telling when, but a social media earthquake ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...

The tsunami wave from an anticipated earthquake off the West Coast could reach 100 feet and permanently flood parts of the ...

A Virginia Tech study highlights the potential for a mega-tsunami triggered by a major earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction ...

These statistics are a cause for grave concern in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, where scientists predict that there is a 37 percent chance that a megathrust earthquake of 7.1 ...

A powerful underwater volcano known as Axial Seamount off the Oregon coast may erupt. Though scientists say it poses no tsunami risk, its proximity to the Cascadia subduction zone raises concern.

But what could happen to the Pacific Northwest landscape, including its coastline, if a big earthquake hits? A study published earlier this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...

The region is also at risk for a catastrophic Cascadia subduction zone earthquake ... weird Catch-22 that many of us are in.” The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network is also contending with ...