Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created... Read Story ...

A major Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the West Coast. During that earthquake, parts of California, Oregon and Washington could shake for up to five minutes, as the Juan de Fuca ...

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.

There are places where splay faults are present along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and for those spots, the tsunami risk may not have changed much. In southern Washington, near Grays Harbor ...

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 ...

Strong Shaking From Past Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes Encoded in Coastal Landforms Journal: Geophysical Research Letters Published: 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1029/2024gl112417 Affiliations: 4 ...

Scientists are warning that a 1,000-foot-tall “mega tsunami” could potentially wipe a large chunk of America off the map – if a strong enough earthquake hits a specific active fault line ...

By 2100, there is a 30% chance of a large earthquake happening," Dura said. The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake Scientists have a clear picture of what will happen when the earthquake strikes.

A “great earthquake,” with a magnitude higher than 8.0, has not happened along the Cascadia subduction zone since January 26, 1700, when a magnitude 9 quake struck the region.

Running offshore from northern California to British Columbia, the Cascadia subduction zone marks the boundary where the Juan de Fuca plate dives under the North American plate. It’s also ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 ...