There is a sleeping giant off the coast of the Pacific Northwest that could cause chaos to North America when it eventually ...

The new calculations showed the Pacific plate is pulling away from the North American plate a little more -- approximately 2 millimeters a year -- than the rigid-plate theory would account for ...

This zone marks the interface where the denser Pacific oceanic plate subducts beneath the less dense continental North American plate. As the subducted plate descends, the heat from the earth's ...

A 2.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded early Tuesday morning near Mount Vernon. The shakes were recorded around 1:59 a.m.

A massive quake might drop the Pacific Northwest coastline by 6 feet, redrawing flood maps and putting thousands of homes at risk.

a giant fault off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. There, the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate plunges under the North American plate, building strain throughout the region and prompting fears of ...

The Juan de Fuca plate is being forced under the North American plate at a convergent ... of producing a devastating tsunami along the Pacific coast and Puget Sound. Not all earthquakes occur ...

“The earthquake that hit Japan today looks like it happened when the North American and Pacific Plate collided. “The North American Plate is huge — much bigger than the Pacific Plate.

A major earthquake along a West Coast fault could have catastrophic consequences across coastal Washington, Oregon and northern California. Running offshore from northern California to British ...

Just off the Pacific Northwest coast amid record-breaking ... In the Northwest, the smaller Juan de Fuca plate is sliding under the North American plate along a roughly 600-mile-long subduction ...

Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them, such as the North American ... Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest ...

The new calculations showed the Pacific plate is pulling away from the North American plate a little more -- approximately 2 millimeters a year -- than the rigid-plate theory would account for ...