Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds ...

"The National Seismic Hazard model shows that there is a 15% chance of a large (over magnitude 8) earthquake happening ...

A recent study led by Tina Dura, a geosciences professor at Virginia Tech, has raised significant concerns about the ...

New research shows that in minutes after the earthquake hits, coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington could drop ...

A major earthquake waiting to strike the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn’t the only natural disaster looming in the Pacific ...

A Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could cause long-lasting changes to Washington’s landscape, coastline and floodplain, a ...

It's a matter of when -- not if -- a significant earthquake will shake the Pacific Northwest, and a new study says some areas ...

WASHINGTON, USA — A 2.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded early Tuesday morning in the Olympic National Forest. The shakes ...

More than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the ...

Cascadia is the Northwest's bid for economic might in the age of Donald Trump. It's not a secession movement but an effort to ...

They tend to inflate like a balloon in between eruptions. At Axial, the sea floor is actually rising, and that’s a big signal.” ...

Washington state has seen several recent earthquakes ranging from small tremors near Tacoma and Vashon Island to larger ...