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

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

NOAA Editor's note: On March 11, a massive earthquake struck Japan and sent a tsunami across ... is called the Cascadia subduction zone. Subduction is the process by which an ocean plate nudges ...

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

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

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