New research offers the theory that the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating ...
A future mega-earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could lead to the “Big One” along the San Andreas fault in California—or vice versa.
In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances (2025), scientists uncovered a fascinating and unusual process ...
A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...
When the tectonic subduction zone beneath the Pacific Northwest moves, it does so in dramatic fashion. Not only is ground ...
With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...
Growing up in Southern California, earthquakes were a given. Before college, I thought Oregon was a “safe zone”, somewhere ...
A 1,000-foot mega tsunami could hit the U.S. West Coast — and scientists say it’s not a matter of if, but when. Triggered by a massive earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, this wave could ...
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off the Oregon Coast late Thursday night, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed.
Where the school had been, moments before, was a cloud of dust. The day was pleasant and partly cloudy in Mexico City when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook the earth, killing around 400 people. Of ...
Two fault systems on North America’s West Coast – the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault – may be ...