Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several large US cities in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone.

The U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) insists that earthquake forecasting is not possible. Thus, the agency only calculates the probability that a significant earthquake will occur, depicted in a hazard map ...

These statistics are a cause for grave concern in the Pacific Northwest of the United ... that a significant earthquake will occur, depicted in a hazard map for a specific area within a certain ...

In the Pacific Northwest, where written ... a chief architect of the USGS national seismic hazard mapping project, says such geological “hazard maps” are like charts of the most dangerous ...

But near the Pacific Northwest’s particularly fraught ... using the information to understand how floodplain maps will be redrawn after an earthquake. Sea level is rising gradually due to ...

Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature," David B. Williams slows down and takes a close look at Seattle.

The Pacific Coast is tiptoeing around not one but two of the largest seismic triggers of the region’s modern history.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), an earthquake measured 7.7 on the Richter scale, striking 10 miles (16 kilometres) northwest ... world after the Pacific Ring of Fire.

DON’T MISS: The threat of earthquakes is ... continues below A strong Pacific jet stream lifts a mild southerly flow across the western portion of the Northwest Territories, but downstream ...

The quake, recorded east of Greenwater near the ghost town Lester, was detected on Sunday, April 6, around 8:15 a.m., according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network ... of 1.8 at 10.6 miles deep.

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