While you may think earthquakes are a rarity in New Mexico, think again. Dr. Urbi Basu, manager of the New Mexico Tech ...

A recent Virginia Tech study reveals that the Pacific Northwest faces a heightened risk of catastrophic flooding and ...

Unlike gradual climate-driven events, this potential earthquake would “happen within minutes, leaving no time for adaptation ...

The next big earthquake: When is the Bay Area due? Watch: During earthquake, elephants form 'alert circle' at San Diego ...

Similar instances of land subsidence on the order of 2 m or greater occurred after Chile’s magnitude 9.5 earthquake in May 1960, as well as the 9.2 quake that struck Alaska in March 1964.

This map (left image ... making coastal geologic records of past earthquakes and associated subsidence critical for understanding this hazard. Dura and her team are documenting geologic evidence ...

The most recent risk assessment, outlined in maps that ... s tsunami hazard areas followed a devastating tsunami in Japan in 2011, which was triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off the country ...

“And in the case of these maps, we have increased the hazard in many ... because in California, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, especially coastal regions, (earthquakes) are much, much more ...