New research, led by the University of Washington, reveals new information about the Cascadia Subduction Zone will force a ...

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

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault that stretches around 600 miles from Northern ... were determined by geologic markers and a Pacific-wide tsunami documented in Japan. "Since over 300 years have ...

(b) Thermal structure of an oceanic subduction zone, modified from modeling results of Peacock and Wang (2021) for NE Japan. Black dashed lines are isotherms in ºC. Abbreviations: SSE, slow slip ...

New research shows that in minutes after the earthquake hits, coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington could drop ...

"The National Seismic Hazard model shows that there is a 15% chance of a large (over magnitude 8) earthquake happening ...

“We applied this technique to the Cascadia and Japan subduction zones and found that wherever deeper locked patches are present, the shallow fault must also have a high slip deficit—regardless ...

Subduction zones, which can also be found off the coasts of Alaska, Russia, Japan, Indonesia, New Zealand, and South America, are all similar in that one tectonic plate slides beneath another.