When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five ...

A new study is fueling speculation and fear about the risks of a major earthquake in the Cascadia subduction zone, including ...

A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...

The next major Pacific Northwest earthquake could cause coastal land to sink by up to 6.5 feet in a matter of minutes — and ...

It’s a subduction zone located where the Philippine Sea Plate ... potentially causing more extensive damage than the 2011 ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault that stretches around 600 ... by geologic markers and a Pacific-wide tsunami documented in Japan. "Since over 300 years have passed, we worry about the ...

Schematic figure of the subduction zone underneath the Kanto region (left) in Japan and the spatial distribution of magnitude 2 to 6 earthquakes on the subduction zone at 60 to 70 kilometers below ...

A major Cascadia subduction ... subduction zone quake – on Jan. 26, 1700 an estimated 9.0 earthquake caused the coastline to drop several feet and sent a tsunami to Japan. Researchers discovered ...

The Cascadia subduction ... 3a), the E zone appears as a sequence of anastomosing reflections that extends over 1.0 to 3.2 s (corresponding to a thickness of 3-10 km), dips at 4-15o, and reaches a ...

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.