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

Abrupt earthquake-triggered land changes are not a new idea. The earliest written accounts of great earthquakes causing the ...

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

Those are the findings of a new study that examined the repercussions of a massive earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone ... 9.1 earthquake off Japan's east coast in 2011, which caused ...

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 ...