The Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating powerful earthquakes. The study found compact sediments along the coast of Washington and northern Oregon, a result that suggests that the ...

A new study mapping the Cascadia Subduction Zone is giving scientists clues about the state of the fault line as the Pacific ...

1. Figure 1: Map of the northern Cascadia subduction zone showing the distribution of earthquakes in the subducting Juan de Fuca plate and the locations of seismic cross-sections. Green dashed line ...

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The Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating "megathrust" earthquakes with magnitudes of 9.0 or higher. Such an event, which last occurred over 300 years ago, could trigger a tsunami ...

Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent ...

Image 1: Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake cycle recorded in salt marsh stratigraphy ... This second scenario seems most likely because historical maps indicate that most salt marshes were fully ...

"We have the potential for earthquakes and tsunamis as large ... for the building codes and zoning." The map of the Cascadia Subduction Zone showed several interesting findings.

Wildfires and hurricanes are dominating the disaster spotlight, but the threat of a massive earthquake still simmers beneath the surface in the Pacific Northwest. The National Science Foundation ...