The Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake may not have brought the same devastation as previous shocks, but a far more deadly ...

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 ...

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.

Tsunami warning systems have seen significant advancements with the development of new technologies. However, there seem to ...

From Alaska to Puerto Rico, the U.S. has faced some of history’s most powerful tsunamis. As fresh waves hit Hawaii, Russia, ...

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

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward shore.

Warm fluid is shooting “like a firehose” into the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon coast and researchers believe it’s regulating pressure on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the offshore fault that ...

The last time the Cascadia subduction zone burped up a massive, zone-wide earthquake was way back in 1700. No one knows when it will happen again: it could be this year or more than 100 years from ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone has long been studied by experts, but it gained prominence in the mainstream last year after Kathryn Schulz's Pulitzer Prize winning feature in The New Yorker on the ...

Subduction Denialism, Part 3: Sedimentation in the Cascadia subduction zone Note: This post is the third in a three-part series — please see Part 1 and Part 2 from earlier today before ...