The top range on the map (110-145 percent) corresponds to the most extreme earthquake damage – masonry and frame structures would be destroyed. The lower end of the scale (20-30) on the Seattle ...

Bellevue will mostly be OK, but Seattle will crumble if the big one hits. Yakima won’t be pretty after an earthquake either. Washington state has a new interactive map to help determine how ...

Tens of millions of Americans live in places with a high earthquake risk ... economic damages include the San Francisco, Portland and Seattle metropolitan areas. Also topping this list were ...

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck near Idyllwild in Riverside County on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was reported around 12:27 p.m. with a depth of nine miles.

New maps of more than 1,000 deep-seated landslides in the Puget Lowlands of Washington State provide evidence of the last major earthquake along the Seattle Fault about 1,100 years ago -- and may ...

It’s a scenario that hasn’t been factored into hazard maps, building codes and ... more than 20 miles underground. “An earthquake on the Seattle Fault is … likely to be much, much more ...

east of Seattle on Tuesday morning. The earthquake hit at 2:17 a.m. at a depth of 14 kilometers below the earth’s surface. According to the USGS “Did You Feel It” map, people felt shaking as ...

A map has shown an underwater fault line ... an area of real worry that could cause a nine-plus magnitude earthquake.

The USGS earthquake map shows increased seismic activity in ... and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Seattle woman arrested for pit bull attacks: ‘Let him do his thing ...

And sometimes a quake at one fault can trigger activity at another, creating one large earthquake—or multiple in quick succession. Researchers have linked two faults in the Seattle area ...