Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several large US cities in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone.

With a massive Cascadia subduction zone earthquake looming in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill ...

OKANOGAN, Wash. — A 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck early Wednesday morning near Okanogan.

smaller 2.4 earthquake earlier that morning in the Cascadia Fold off the coast. Slight tremors could be felt on the mainland, but nothing that would cause alarm for areas such as Eugene or Portland.

California earthquake: 5.7 magnitude quake rocks region ... on alert as 4.1 magnitude quake rocks LA and West Coast At ...

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 ...

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 of the offshore Cascadia earthquake fault. Yet, it’s worth ...

That is, of course, a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake registering in the high 8 and even 9 range that could happen in 50 years, 100 years, or before you finish reading this sentence.