Teachers and staff in low-lying schools along the Pacific Northwest coast face an unusual extra responsibility alongside ...

It’s a daunting challenge with the highest possible stakes should an offshore earthquake unleash a wall of incoming seawater.

A single earthquake could cause the Pacific Northwest’s coastline to drop by as much as 6.5 feet in minutes permanently ...

The Cascadia ... of producing megathrust earthquakes exceeding magnitude 9.0, which can, in turn, generate massive tsunamis. The last major earthquake in this zone occurred in 1700, estimated ...

Dura and other experts have begun to worry about "the next big event being imminent" in the Cascadia ... The last event was in 1700, and paleoseismic records show these earthquakes recur roughly ...

The Cascadia fault, where the Juan de Fuca plate slips beneath the North American plate, is capable of producing megathrust ... The last earthquake that occurred on this fault was in 1700, with ...

A major earthquake along a West Coast fault could have catastrophic consequences across coastal Washington, Oregon and northern California. Running offshore from northern California to British ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, capable of producing a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, last produced a major quake in 1700. The fault ... slip past each other in a “megathrust” earthquake.

The last big, “megathrust” earthquake in the region, along the 600-mile-long Cascadia Subduction Zone, was in 1700. Experts say the likelihood in the next 50 years of a “megathrust” on the ...

Pinpointing the evening of January 26th, 1700 as the date and time of ... These maps are for our largest tsunami threat — the Cascadia megathrust earthquake. If you are in the zone, practice ...