Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers hoping to unravel the dance of earthquake movement in North America’s West Coast discovered a disturbing fact: Two of the world’s largest ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...

The West Coast is years overdue for the next big earthquake. When the colossal tremor eventually strikes, seismologists expect high-rises and other buildings to collapse, massive fires that can burn ...

Picture a fault line lurking just offshore, stretching the length of entire states and quietly storing energy. Scientists say the Cascadia Subduction Zone has been still for centuries, which makes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research reveals the Cascadia and San Andreas faults may be linked, with quakes on one triggering the other. (CREDIT: ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to California, the fault marks the ...

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 years, ...

Julia Shumway / Oregon Capital Chronicle The so-called “Big One” or Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake expected to trigger disruptive quakes throughout the West Coast could cause more damage than ...

The Carrizo Plain in eastern San Luis Obispo County contains the most strikingly graphic portion of the San Andreas Fault. Sediment cores recovered from the Pacific seafloor suggest that megathrust ...

The so-called “Big One” or Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake expected to trigger disruptive quakes throughout the West Coast could cause more damage than previously estimated if it sets off quakes ...