A massive underwater volcano, Axial Seamount, 300 miles off Oregon’s coast, may erupt soon after over 1,000 daily quakes and ...

Tina Dura, a geosciences professor at Virginia Tech, was the lead author on a new study that examined the risk of major coastal flooding in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California from two factors ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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