The Cascadia Subduction Zone, dormant for over 300 years, poses a significant threat to the Pacific Northwest. A future earthquake, potentially magnitude 8.0 or greater, carries a 15% chance of ...

In the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the Juan de Fuca Plate is being forced further and further under the North American Plate. This is a geological configuration that can produce “megathrust ...

Lori Dengler told the Times-Standard, but she said “It’s not all that unusual.” Dengler told the Times-Standard that a famous and ...

Known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, this 1,130-kilometer-long (700-mile-long) fault line extends from around Cape Mendocino in California up to near Vancouver Island, Canada.

Scientists detected a slow-motion earthquake off Japan, offering rare insight into hidden faults and tsunami risks beneath ...

This is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. According to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), earthquakes happen in Washington every day, but most are too small to be felt.

Scientists are testing artificial intelligence to improve tsunami warnings in Tofino, Canada, helping thousands evacuate more ...

Located 100-200 kilometres off the Pacific coast of North America, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is a convergent (tectonic) plate boundary capable of producing 9.0+ magnitude earthquakes and tsunamis ...

Scientists for the first time have detected a slow slip earthquake in motion during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at ...

Along those boundaries two of Earth's tectonic plates collide, ... "I think all subduction zones are guilty until proven otherwise," says Kerry ... Among them is the Cascadia subduction zone, ...

They captured the event using advanced borehole sensors installed deep beneath the ocean floor in a region known as the ...