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

The big earthquake off the coast of Alaska triggered a tsunami watch for the Oregon Coast during the predawn ... Geophysicists can create hazard maps that show known faults and the probability ...

(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) By Alberto Enriquez When it comes to earthquakes, one question matters. How many thousands of Oregon Coast ... earthquakes are being forecast today.

The report includes updated maps that show geologists' predictions ... Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. [Image Gallery: This Millennium's Destructive Earthquakes ...

An earthquake hitting the coast of Oregon today has sent shockwaves through the state, sparking fears of a Tsunami warning. The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake hit 302km (188 ...

Since 1924, there have been 44 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or higher in an area that includes Oregon, northern California and Washington, a USGS map shows. The largest was a magnitude 7.2 on June ...

To be clear, ShakeAlert is not an earthquake prediction system. Instead, it uses a network of more than 200 seismic monitoring stations, deployed at strategic locations across Oregon, to detect ...

So, we’re talking about 600-700 miles of fault that ruptured in a single event,” said Diego Melgar, director of University of Oregon’s Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center. The ...

DON’T MISS: Farmer’s Almanac predicts winter weather in the PNW Although obviously not as destructive as the 1700 quake, since 2000 Oregon has seen a number of strong earthquakes, according to ...

An earthquake shook off the Oregon coast Wednesday afternoon. The earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean, more than 170 miles west of Bandon, Oregon at 1:15 p.m. local time, according to the U ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off the southern Oregon Coast Wednesday at 1:15 p.m. USGS says the quake was 6.2 miles deep and the epicenter was about 173 miles west ...