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 ...

KUOW's Deborah Wang produced this story as part of her 2010 series “On Shaky Ground.” The rocks and mud of the Pacific Northwest tell the story of much larger earthquakes that have hit this ...

New maps from the U.S. Geological Survey bring Seattle’s earthquake risk into sharper focus and add some unsettling details to what was already a grim picture. Recent surveys discovered a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A single earthquake in Seattle could cause a catastrophic situation for the northwest corner of the state, a new report from Washington's Department of Natural Resources found. The study was ...

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 ...