Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds ...

There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the ...

Emma Pattee explores what might happen to a woman during the Cascadia Earthquake, in “Tilt.” Like the San Andreas Fault, the ...

because we are closer to the continental shelf and where the Cascadia megathrust fault breaks the seafloor surface. Plafker ...

Dr. Jay Patton of the California Geological Survey joins the show to discuss why land may suddenly jump or fall, the ...

It took about a week before I heard murmurs drifting about the department that the coastline near the mouth of the Mattole ...

New research shows that in minutes after the earthquake hits, coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington could drop ...

A major earthquake waiting to strike the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn’t the only natural disaster looming in the Pacific ...

Researchers are sounding an alarm about an earthquake fault along the Northern California coast. A new study shows a large quake in the Cascadia subduction zone could cause land along the coastline to ...

The aforementioned earthquake minefield is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, an undersea fault line roughly 100 miles off the coast of North America. A big quake there could send massive ...