There is a reason why California chooses the last week in March to focus on tsunamis. It marks our worst historic tsunami ...

While Hollywood has hyped up ‘The Next Big One’ as a massive earthquake in the US, many believe that a much more devastating ...

Museum experts are exploring how to bring the science dioramas of yore into the 21st century, while ensuring scientific accuracy and acknowledging past ...

Californians have long dreaded the 'Big One'. But growing fears of a deadly earthquake are no longer confined to just the ...

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 ...

In my novel, Tilt, the earthquake strikes in the late morning, on a weekday. My protagonist, Annie, 37 weeks pregnant, is ...

We need a 21st-century crisis management system built not on slogans or hope, but on readiness, coordination and command.

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

That earthquake, the one we are all dreading, is the event that kicks off Pattee’s debut novel, “Tilt,” out Tuesday from ...

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

This week, it makes far more sense to test an aspect of our tsunami system that didn’t perform very well last December — who ...