The Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest is overdue for an earthquake – and when it happens, coastal ...
More than 18 quakes were recorded in an “active swarm” of tremors starting around midnight Sunday on the Juan de Fuca Ridge.
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck off the Oregon coast on Tuesday. The quake hit in the early afternoon about 250 miles west ...
Early Sunday, a burst of seismic activity rippled through the Pacific Ocean about 240 miles west of Westport, Washington, ...
Most people only think about earthquakes after one happens. The news cycle kicks in, the footage rolls, and for a few days ...
There’s a small silver tent in an engineering lab at Portland State University — the heavy-duty type that you can walk into. “This is what I call the magic tent, where all the chemistry and all the ...
A new UW study on the Cascadia Subduction Zone was released in February 2026. The study indicated that a difference between ...
Recent seismic imaging off Vancouver Island has revealed something extraordinary: a tear in the subducting oceanic plate ...
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is “unusually quiet,” for a megathrust fault, making it more difficult for scientists to ...
Earth's "gold kitchen" lies deep beneath the seafloor. Island arcs, whose volcanoes form above subduction zones where one ...