If you live on Vancouver Island, you know that earthquakes are a given due to our location near the Cascadia Subduction Zone: ...

January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Centuries later, the ancient quake has left clues for scientists to prepare for the next one.

After the House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday to fund the federal government and avoid a shutdown, two ...

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

Washington hasn’t seen a major earthquake since the 6.8 magnitude Nisqually earthquake in 2001. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, capable of producing a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, last produced a major ...

This is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. According to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), ...

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

It was the fourth earthquake with a magnitude of 3.0 or higher to hit the state since Feb. 18, according to USGS, in addition to a 4.8 magnitude quake that hit southern British Columbia. With ...

Phelps and other disaster managers are pushing that point because the Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake is not the apocalypse. Most of us will live through it when it happens. But what our ...

Earthquake experts say current building codes don’t reflect the riskiest features of the Seattle area’s geology — but the outlook for survivability looks a lot better if the Really Big ...

Much longer, up to 150 years? Image 1: Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake cycle recorded in salt marsh stratigraphy and computed tomography (CT) scan of a 80 cm sediment core collected from an Oregon ...