Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several large US cities in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – With a massive Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake looming in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill to help build an earthquake-ready Columbia ...

a region known for intense seismic activity. Andaman Megathrust Zone: Situated to the west, this active subduction zone marks the point where the India Plate is steadily forced beneath the Burma ...

The outer coastline had tsunami waves of under three feet. The March 2011 Tohoku earthquake was the result of a subduction zone, where the Pacific plate moves under the Honshu plate. This movement ...

Tsunamigenic Earthquakes: Past events along the subduction zones, including the notable tsunamigenic earthquakes of 1881 and 1941 near the Andaman-Nicobar Islands, illustrate the destructive ...

Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the locations where the largest deposits of strategic metals, such as copper, ...

Hyderabad: India will soon have a new map of earthquake hazard zones, keeping up with the fast-developing infrastructure needs of the country, and will return from the current five-zone to a six ...

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 centred in ... quakes that are normally less powerful than those seen in “subduction zones” like Indonesia’s Sumatra, where one plate slides under ...