When a major Cascadia earthquake does eventually strike, officials expect no more than a few seconds’ notice. As it happened, ...

Seattle isn't even that close to the earthquake's epicenter. The Olympic Mountains ... In a region called the Cascadia subduction zone, the Juan de Fuca oceanic plate is sliding (or "subducting ...

Goulet said some communities near the epicenter, from Eureka to Fort ... it was not likely to increase the risk of an earthquake there. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is one of the biggest hazards ...

Phelps and other disaster managers are pushing that point because the Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake is not the apocalypse. Most of us will live through it when it happens. But what our ...

(via PBS Terra) The 1700 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami was a massive natural disaster that reshaped the Pacific Northwest. Through tree rings, soil layers, and international collaboration, ...

Some structural damage was possible in areas closer to the epicenter of the event ... and Pacific plates meet.” The earthquake was not on the Cascadia Subduction zone, Clements said, but ...