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

The ground beneath the Pacific Northwest is not quiet. Along a vast offshore fault, strain has been building for centuries, ...

Chris Goldfinger, who grew up in the Bay Area and emerged as a leading scientist on the feared Cascadia Fault, discusses the ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is quietly loading energy that will one day unleash a megathrust earthquake, and a growing ...

Picture a fault line lurking just offshore, stretching the length of entire states and quietly storing energy. Scientists say ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. New research suggests the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault — operated on separate geologic stages. One dives, one ...

New strategy outlines 16-foot waves, limited response time and infrastructure upgrades as officials push for evacuation ...

A strip of restless ocean off the Pacific Northwest conceals a threat that has been building for centuries. Beneath these ...

A "Big One" on the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest might trigger a similarly serious earthquake on California's San Andreas Fault, new research suggests. The findings are based on ...

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

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, ...