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

A Virginia Tech study highlights the potential for a mega-tsunami triggered by a major earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction ...

Researchers found that a potential powerful earthquake combined with rising sea levels could lead to a mega tsunami.

Around 90 percent of the world's quakes pop off in the disjointed string of subduction zones that trace the so-called ring of fire, which stretches in an arc around the Pacific Ocean from the ...

The tsunami wave from an anticipated earthquake off the West Coast could reach 100 feet and permanently flood parts of the ...

A powerful underwater volcano known as Axial Seamount off the Oregon coast may erupt. Though scientists say it poses no ...

A new study by geoscientists at Virginia Tech, published in ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’, estimates a 15 ...

Mega tsunamis are colossal waves triggered by geological events. Lituya Bay saw the tallest tsunami ever recorded. Hawaii ...

One of the most dangerous fault lines that threatens the United States lurks off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, capable of producing a Pacific-wide tsunami and dramatically changing the landscape ...

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread flooding from rising seas that follows will ...