Along a quiet stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a hidden fault is slowly loading the energy for what could be the most ...

A 9.2 megathrust earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone would not just rattle the Pacific Northwest, it would redraw the ...

SEATTLE — It’s hard to imagine anything worse than the 2011 tsunami in Japan. But a professor at the University of Southern California says an even larger tsunami could potentially hit the Northwest ...

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Before, during and after the distant Kamchatka tsunami propelled 1-foot waves to Washington state, coastal communities here have been preparing for our own Big Rip someday. For instance, Westport, ...

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren A sign designates a tsunami evacuation route in Westport. The 8.8 magnitude quake in Russia this week gave the West Coast a chance to practice how to respond to tsunamis. Daniel ...

UC San Diego seismologist Alice Gabriel was one researcher on a multi-institution team which won supercomputing's most lauded prize last week for its studies on a real-time tsunami monitoring ...

The earthquake recorded Tuesday off Russia’s far eastern coast was one of the strongest in recorded history. People across the Pacific Ocean braced for potentially devastating tsunami to follow. Some ...