A new look at the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate beneath the coast of northern Oregon suggests this subducting slab is shallower ...

If there is a magnitude 8 or 9 megathrust earthquake off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, data from ocean bottom ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A megathrust earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest. But new imaging of undersea faults and fractures has given scientists ...

Seismologists have a term they use carefully: a "seismic gap." It refers to a section of an active fault that has gone quiet ...

A new UW study on the Cascadia Subduction Zone was released in February 2026. The study indicated that a difference between ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Cascadia Subduction Zone is “unusually quiet,” for a megathrust fault, making it more difficult for scientists to understand its behavior and structure. With help from ...

The Cabinet Office has revised its guidelines on how companies and local governments should respond to emergency information ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A powerful undersea earthquake that struck off the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java has killed four people and damaged hundreds of buildings, the nation's disaster agency ...

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 Nisqually Earthquake struck western Washington. The 6.8 magnitude quake ...

A 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Indian Ocean on Sunday morning at a depth of 10 km, according to the National Center of ...