If and when a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake hits the Portland region, soil liquefaction could dramatically worsen the damage, leading buildings to tilt, roads to buckle and utility lines to ...

My regular readers are going to need some context and backstory to what motivated writing this series of posts. It's a three-part series -- here is Part 2 and Part 3. I recently had an exchange with ...

BANDON, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A 5.9-magnitude earthquake rumbled off the southern Oregon coast late Thursday night, and several people felt it onshore, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. No tsunami alerts ...

And It’s Closer Than You Think :water_wave: Scientists are raising alarms about a catastrophic tsunami that could devastate parts of the U.S. coastline. Alaska, Hawaii, and the West Coast are under ...

A Magnitude 5.9 earthquake rumbled off the Oregon Coast at 11:45 p.m. Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ...

The big one is coming. We all know that. We also know the big one might turn out to be the very big one. The 700-mile-long Cascadia subduction zone that's just off the coast of California, Oregon and ...

Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in ...

The magnitude 6.5 earthquake off the coast of Northern California Thursday morning occurred on a fault called the Mendocino Transform, not the more dangerous Cascadia Subduction Zone. But ...

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A budding subduction zone offshore of Spain heralds the start of a new cycle that will one day pull the Atlantic Ocean seafloor into the bowels of the Earth, a new study suggests. Understanding how ...