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

Thousands in the Pacific Northwest face a heightened flood risk, not just from rising sea levels, but from the land itself ...

A new study warns that a megathrust earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could cause coastal land to sink permanently.

The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Earthquakes are part of nature but they do not have to be disasters. DW looks at some countries that are showing how ...

This subduction zone has produced several earthquakes of ... To learn the cause of the collapse, we have to look at images frame by frame to locate the trigger point." Residents of damaged ...

3D seismic reflection images of the lithosphere–asthenosphere ... Combined sulfur and neodymium isotopes suggest that volatile cycling at subduction zones began 3.8 Gyr ago or earlier, according ...