The Cascadia Subduction Zone has been quiet for more than three centuries, yet its silence is exactly what alarms the ...

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 barrel toward shore.

Learn how subduction zones form, drive massive earthquakes, create volcanoes, and shape Earth’s surface through powerful tectonic processes.

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 ...

They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: The San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California’s North Coast, Oregon, ...

A team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin (UT), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Scripps ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone has been quiet for more than three centuries, but that silence is exactly what alarms the ...