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.

Two fault systems on North America’s West Coast – the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault – may be ...

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 ...

Growing up in Southern California, earthquakes were a given. Before college, I thought Oregon was a “safe zone”, somewhere ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm over a terrifying possibility — a 1,000-foot mega tsunami that could strike the US West ...

When the tectonic subduction zone beneath the Pacific Northwest moves, it does so in dramatic fashion. Not only is ground ...

Decisions made in Washington, D.C., don't always reflect the needs and wants of the Pacific Northwest. That has to change.

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...