Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign for the San Andreas Fault is seen in Parkfield (Monterey County) in 2019. The fault could rupture following a megaquake in ...

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The Cascadia Subduction Zone has been quiet for more than three centuries, but that silence is exactly what alarms the scientists who study it. Along roughly 600 miles of fault off the Pacific ...

A major earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could cause coastal land from to sink permanently, dramatically increasing the risk of flooding, according to a new study. The research, published ...

The Carrizo Plain in eastern San Luis Obispo County contains the most strikingly graphic portion of the San Andreas Fault. Sediment cores recovered from the Pacific seafloor suggest that megathrust ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A major earthquake waiting to strike the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn’t the only natural disaster looming in the Pacific Northwest, new research shows. A powerful quake, ...

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward shore.

When Washingtonians talk about the possibility of a major earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the conversation typically focuses on the immediate impacts: the threat of casualties, building ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...

EUGENE, Ore. (NBC) -- When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could ...

The pressure keeps building below the Earth’s surface off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, and a multi-layered disaster could strike at any time. A huge earthquake is brewing along the Cascadia ...