The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a major fault that runs offshore from Northern California to British Columbia, is best known ...

A future Cascadia earthquake could unleash far more than just devastating shaking — it could sink large parts of the Pacific ...

The next great earthquake isn't the only threat to the Pacific Northwest. A powerful earthquake, combined with rising sea ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that a major earthquake ...

Image 0: Me collecting sediment cores in Netarts Bay, Oregon. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans from British Columbia to Northern California, periodically experiences megathrust earthquakes M ...

Map shows the Cascadia Subduction Zone along the Pacific Northwest coast, with a shaded area encompassing the onshore and offshore areas where seismometers were located. Data from the seismometers ...