The Pacific Northwest sits atop one of the most dangerous fault systems on Earth, yet daily life from Seattle to Portland rarely reflects that reality. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 700-mile ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new work maps a strange kind of earthquake that starts deep below the crust, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A major earthquake waiting to strike the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn’t the only natural disaster looming in the Pacific Northwest, new research shows. A powerful quake, ...

A detailed 3D reconstruction of the Marmara fault highlights high-stress boundaries that could trigger the next major ...

First global map of mantle earthquakes reveals seismic activity far beneath continents, challenging old ideas about Earth’s deep rocks.

EUGENE, Ore. (NBC) -- When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie ...

The East Tennessee earthquake on May 10 was one of the strongest to hit the region since 1900. The East Tennessee Seismic Zone is an active one, even if it isn't known to produce quakes strong enough ...

Dehradun: Uttarakhand govt initiated a comprehensive revision of building bylaws after the entire state was reclassified under Seismic Zone VI — the h.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earthquake with tremor graphic A newly identified link between two notorious geologic zones suggests a major earthquake at one ...