Most of us would rather not think about what our lives will be like in the aftermath of the Big One – a magnitude 9.0 rupture ...

Emergency preparedness advocates made another try at the Oregon Legislature this spring to raise the standard for new school ...

At the confluence of multiple tectonic plates, on the Pacific Ring of Fire, sits the West Coast of the United States, where ...

On social media a self-proclaimed earthquake predictor says he can forecast big shakes, but experts say it's pure luck.

People reported feeling the earthquake as far as south Pierce County, north of Seattle and around Port Orchard.

Non-volcanic tremor ramp up precedes slow slip in Cascadia by about a day, indicating that brittle-creeping process ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, capable of producing a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, last produced a major quake in 1700. The fault goes an average of 535 years between major quakes, according to the ...

The Cascadia fault line extends over 620 miles through the Puget Sound region, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. “There are several fault lines that pass under Seattle ...

The last significant earthquake to shake up the region was Bowen’s 5.8 tremor in 2016 Dr Waszek also addressed a social media theory that there was a fault line running from Townsville to ...

When enough stress builds, the fault will rupture, releasing a massive amount of energy. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has the potential for these types of earthquakes and has ruptured in the past.