“This is the exact point where the Cascadia Subduction Zone ends to the south and the San Andreas Fault begins,” Tobin said. “It’s the most seismically active place in California ...

The risk of damaging flooding from a major tsunami may be greater than many realized along stretches of California's renowned ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

This week, it makes far more sense to test an aspect of our tsunami system that didn’t perform very well last December — who ...

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A particularly chilling prospect for Northern California, as well as Oregon and Washington, would be a magnitude 9 earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone off the coast. A major quake in ...