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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A flurry of earthquakes in the Seattle area over the last couple of weeks has some residents asking if that means the "Big One" is on its way. Why it matters: Scientists say it's not a question of ...

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 ...