The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a major fault that runs offshore from Northern California to British Columbia, is best known ...

Thousands in the Pacific Northwest face a heightened flood risk, not just from rising sea levels, but from the land itself ...

Two separate 4.5-magnitude earthquakes occurred within 45 miles of Kodiak on Thursday and Friday, among almost a dozen near ...

This event is part of ongoing seismic activity in the Pacific Northwest, a region shaped by ... visit the USGS Earthquake 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 ...

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 ...

Maui's Haleakala volcano and the rest of the Hawaiian Islands formed out of molten lava as the Pacific plate drifted over the hotspot as three to four inches a year. Map Source: TASA Graphic Arts ...

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.

The Pacific Gas & Electric ... with the Pacific Plate moving northwest relative to the North American Plate. This margin is known today as the San Andreas Fault Zone (SAFZ). The SAFZ is not just a ...