This study, published in Earth and Planetary Physics, explores the subduction thermal state, slab metamorphism, and seismic ...

Residents are urged to secure household items, maintain emergency kits, and participate in statewide drills such as the Great ...

By Brian Brown, president and partner at food marketing agency Ingredient  For those living on the West Coast of North ...

A flurry of earthquakes in the Seattle area over the last couple of weeks has some residents asking if that means the "Big ...

A string of earthquakes has hit Washington in recent weeks. Are they connected, and do they tell us anything about the odds ...

Some Vancouver Island residents reported feeling an earthquake that rumbled near Port Angeles, south of Victoria, on ...

Subduction zone earthquakes: This earthquake results from the tension of an oceanic plate slipping beneath a continental ...

A 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck Monday morning near the Orcas Island in northern Washington state. The temblor occurred at about 5 a.m. and was centered near the Washington-Canada border, about 18 ...

This earthquake is larger than much of the recent seismic activity around western Washington, per initial reports.

Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within the Pacific Ring ...

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake shook parts of east King County early Thursday afternoon, just hours after a similar quake in Bremerton.

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough to ...