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

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

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

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – A new study by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) says a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could injure as many as 27,000 people in Clackamas ...

Cascadia Subduction Zone. About 50 miles offshore under the Pacific Ocean runs the. Cascadia Subduction Zone, reaching from Northern California to British Columbia -- more than 600 miles long.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a 620-mile-long fault that stretches from British Columbia to Northern California, and pressure is building daily. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ...

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

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Scientists are just back from a monthlong research cruise in the Pacific Ocean off Washington state, where they were trying to find the stickiest point on a sec… ...

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.