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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...