A recent Virginia Tech study reveals that the Pacific Northwest faces a heightened risk of catastrophic flooding and mega-tsunamis, potentially reaching 1,000 feet. The Cascadia Subduction Zone's ...

Scientists are warning that a 1,000-foot-tall “mega tsunami” could potentially wipe a large chunk of America off the map – if a strong enough earthquake hits a specific active fault line ...

BANGOR — A powerful and incessant tsunami generated by the next Cascadia megaquake would crest Navy piers and wharves, flood critical state highways in Kitsap County and inundate other lowland ...

For hundreds of years, the Cascadia subduction zone has been quiet. But on Jan. 26, 1700, the earth shook. Japanese history records show an “orphan” tsunami traveled across the Pacific, with ...

Scientists warn Cascadia quake could devastate and wipe part of America off the map 2w S cientists from Virginia Tech did a new study warning that Northern California, Oregon, and Washington could ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) is a 600-mile-long fault line that stretches from Northern California to Vancouver Island in Canada. It marks the boundary where the Juan de Fuca Plate is being ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone looks a little different than researchers thought. ... a splay fault could send a tsunami hurtling toward the coast within 10 or so minutes.

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward shore.

OLYMPIA, Wash. – A 9. 0 magnitude subduction earthquake off the Washington coast would generate a tsunami capable of submerging not only coastal areas but also most of the Puget Sound shoreline ...

See this King TV (Seattle) news story on evidence of the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault. This is the only major fault system on the Ring of Fire that has not gone off in recent years ...

January 26 marked the 325th anniversary of the last Cascadia subduction zone earthquake -- a magnitude 9 quake that sent a tsunami to Japan in the year 1700.