Abrupt earthquake-triggered land changes are not a new idea. The earliest written accounts of great earthquakes causing the land to rise or fall are from China and date back to nearly 4,000 years ...

A Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could cause long-lasting changes to Washington’s landscape, coastline and floodplain, a ...

One of the most dangerous fault lines that threatens the United States lurks off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, capable ...

A recent study found that a powerful quake off the Pacific Northwest could force the ground to sink up to 2 m, leading to ...

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, ...

Across all the locations that the group measured, the low estimates held that the ground would sink by 0.23 to 0.67 meters, depending on the area. The medium estimates ranged from 0.46 to 1.34 meters ...

They tend to inflate like a balloon in between eruptions. At Axial, the sea floor is actually rising, and that’s a big signal ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault that stretches around ... analyzed how such an earthquake could transform the Pacific Northwest, and it's not just powerful waves from a tsunami that ...

A recent study found that a powerful quake off the Pacific Northwest could force ... A major West Coast earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone could have an unexpected and destructive ...