Abrupt earthquake-triggered land changes are not a new idea. The earliest written accounts of great earthquakes causing the ...

One of the most dangerous fault lines that threatens the United States lurks off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, capable ...

A Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could cause long-lasting changes to Washington’s landscape, coastline and floodplain, a ...

A recent study found that a powerful quake off the Pacific Northwest could force the ground to sink up to 2 m, leading to ...

“The Pacific Northwest Disaster Guide” is published by Ooligan Press, a student-run publishing house at Portland State ...

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, ...

Across all the locations that the group measured, the low estimates held that the ground would sink by 0.23 to 0.67 meters, depending on the area. The medium estimates ranged from 0.46 to 1.34 meters ...

They tend to inflate like a balloon in between eruptions. At Axial, the sea floor is actually rising, and that’s a big signal.” ...

A new report, including contributions from Rowan University climate scientist Andra Garner, Ph.D., suggests that a collapse, ...

Scientists have been sounding the alarm about a major earthquake off the Oregon coast for years, but a new study shows just ...