Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active ...

Tuesday's 8.8 magnitude earthquake is the largest detected on the planet since March of 2011, when a violent 9.0 shook Tohoku, Japan.

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

Scientists investigate the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest, and the potential for a catastrophic tsunami.

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

Imagine a massive wall of water slamming into the West Coast, giving residents just minutes to escape. This nightmare ...

The U.S. Navy plans to conduct a Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) exercise Aug. 6 at the Seaview Beach Approach, a trial run ...

Making a go bag list? Here are our top picks for short-term survival scenarios based on extensive field tests.

There is a sleeping giant off the coast of the Pacific Northwest that could cause chaos to North America when it eventually wakes up. Known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, this 1,130-kilometer ...

Illustration of the Cascadia subduction zone, a region where the patterns examined in this study play out. (Credit: Carie Frantz, Wikimedia Commons) When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, ...

Data for the hazards of the Cascadia Subduction Zone &ndash tsunamis, landslides, site amplification, turbidites, land-level change, and episodic tremor and slip.