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

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

The loss of intertidal wetlands directly impacts ecosystem services such as water filtration, habitat for fisheries and ...

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

The Cascadia Subduction Zone has the potential for these types of earthquakes and has ruptured in the past. It is one of Washington state's biggest hazards, according to DNR.

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

That lecture included a summary of the earthquakes that had occurred during the term. The largest and deadliest that semester was a M7.8 in Nepal and a wrap on earthquake hazards. I organized ...

Earlier this year Cal Fire — the state’s firefighting agency — released an updated set of fire hazard maps, the first in almost 15 years. These new maps focus on cities, counties and other ...

The proposed maps are set to take effect in July. The maps classify areas into moderate, high and very high hazard severity zones. Maps that more than double the local area included in fire hazard ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. Source: United States Geological Survey | Notes: Shaking categories are ...

"There is a significant earthquake hazard in the southeastern U.S., " particularly around the New Madrid and East Tennessee seismic zones," Sobieszczyk said. There have been 15 other earthquakes ...

The earthquake was at a depth of 22 miles and was registered near the island of Karpathos in the Mediterranean Sea, the Athens Geodynamic Institute said. A map showing where the earthquake was ...