A recent study led by Tina Dura, a geosciences professor at Virginia Tech, has raised significant concerns about the ...

In the past two decades, as public awareness of a great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone has grown ... Note: the ...

A massive underwater volcano, Axial Seamount, 300 miles off Oregon’s coast, may erupt soon after over 1,000 daily quakes and ...

WASHINGTON, USA — A 2.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded early Tuesday morning in the Olympic National Forest. The shakes ...

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

A submarine volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon could erupt for the first time since 2015, spewing “very fluid lava” into the sea where scientists were recently recording more than 1,000 ...

This is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone ... large and damaging earthquake because of its geologic setting. The Pacific Northwest typically experiences three types of earthquakes: Shallow ...

As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration makes clear, it's not a matter of if but when the next great earthquake (with a magnitude greater than 8) will hit the Pacific Northwest. It's ...