The fault is among the most active in the country, running from St. Louis to Memphis. The New Madrid fault line is best known for some of the most violent earthquakes to ever hit the United States ...

Like the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunamis that killed nearly 16,000 people, ... In the Pacific Northwest, ... is the fault line known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, ...

One way to predict the risk of earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest is to look at how often they occurred in the past – and, for several groups of geologists, delving into the fault lines ...

The Pacific Northwest could be affected by earthquakes from three major nearby faults.

New research led by the University of Victoria (UVic) has illuminated a significant and previously unrecognized source of ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

Such tsunami-producing earthquakes are more common on a nearby fault line. “The main tsunami threat for the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia subduction zone that lies ~360km (220 miles) to the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake gets headlines around the Pacific Northwest, but geologists say the next big earthquake you feel will likely come from a fault somewhere ...

The fault is among the most active in the country, running from St. Louis to Memphis. The New Madrid fault line is best known for some of the most violent earthquakes to ever hit the U.S: a series ...

Harold Tobin, a researcher at the University of Washington and director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, says the fault line that caused earthquake that shook southern Turkey near the ...