The Hikurangi subduction zone: a credible magnitude 8.9 earthquake and tsunami scenario. Video / East Coast LAB ...

Ancient traces of massive undersea landslides has transformed scientists’ understanding of our biggest fault zone - and its ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest has a history of producing powerful and destructive earthquakes that have sunk forests and spawned tsunamis that reached all the way to the ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move against each ...

More than 70 attendees participated in a public information sessionThursday to learn more about earthquake and tsunami risks ...

The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...

We won’t burn enough coal and oil and gas to reach the very highest temperatures seen in the geological record—that required ...

On Sept. 19, 1985, a massive quake resulted in nearly 10,000 deaths, but stories of survival, heroism and improved ...

The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution to move forward with the inverted-Y ...