Fifteen years ago, the world watched in horror as Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake in its recorded history — a catastrophic event that unleashed a deadly tsunami, upended millions of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thinkstock A magnitude 2.9 earthquake shook the Key Peninsula near Home, Wash. on Wednesday morning. The earthquake was reported ...

Rather than shutting down all at once like a "big train wreck," the Juan de Fuca plate is ripping apart piece by piece, ...

The Cascade Subduction Zone affects where the ocean meets the land, and that land is rising in some parts of the Oregon Coast.

On Thursday, the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation passed the Tsunami Warning, Research and Education Act of ...

A book lover returns to the timeless pleasure of getting lost amid the stacks and stumbling onto new treasures.

There's something deeply unsettling about not knowing when the ground beneath your feet might betray you. Unlike hurricanes, ...

Regina Barber and Katia Riddle of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about prehistoric cooking, earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest and how teens are sleeping less than before.

Abstract: Accurate prediction of ground motion intensity parameters helps enhance the accuracy of post-earthquake intensity rapid reports and seismic risk analyses. Traditional ground motion ...

Where were you at 10:54 a.m. on February 28, 2001? At that moment, 25 years ago, there was a whole lotta shaking going on as ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to California, the fault marks the ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...