The impact would be doubly as devastating as predictions for the impending ‘Big One’ and leave millions in harm’s way from ...

A megaquake in the Pacific Northwest could trigger a large earthquake along California's San Andreas Fault, creating an ...

Scientists at Oregon State University say there's new evidence that two of the best-known earthquake fault lines on the West ...

New research offers the theory that the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating back-to-back earthquake disasters.

A new study from Oregon State University (OSU) warns that two of the West Coast's most powerful fault lines, the Cascadia ...

A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances (2025), scientists uncovered a fascinating and unusual process occurring deep beneath the Pacific Northwest. For the first time, a subduction ...

Although Californians are relatively familiar with the San Andreas Fault, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is in many ways more ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...

A recent study suggests the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault may be synchronized, with seismic activity on ...

(a) Geological units and earthquake distribution of an oceanic subduction zone. The orange shadow beneath the volcanic arc represents partially molten areas and magma channels. (b) Thermal structure ...

The study out of Oregon State University shows two major faults -- the San Andreas and the Cascadia Subduction Zone -- could ...