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

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

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created... Read Story ...

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 big one about “The Big One” hit 10 years ago. On July 13, 2015, The New Yorker shook us up with “The Really Big One,” ...

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.

Calvert, 2004, Seismic reflection imaging of two megathrust shear zones in the northern Cascadia subduction zone:Nature, v. 428, p. 163-166.

The Cascadia subduction zone could deliver the worst earthquake in North America. It runs 700 miles underwater along Pacific Northwest, from Canada to California.

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 ...

Why is Cascadia Subduction Zone important for the US West Coast after the 6.3 magnitude earthquake today? Today’s 6.3 magnitude earthquake has sparked fear the ‘Big One’ could hit anytime now.

The fault means business. Some of the world’s largest earthquakes and tsunamis have originated from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 1,127-kilometer (700-mile) stretch that runs from northern ...

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