The Juan de Fuca and Gorda plates offshore of the Pacific Northwest. The plate moves eastward from the midocean ridge and spreading center on the plate's western edge to the trench on the eastern ...

Just off the Pacific Northwest coast amid record-breaking heat in 2021, researchers braved oddly cold, stormy seas to study another threat to the region — earthquakes and tsunamis. The team of about ...

SEATTLE — The threat of an earthquake at any given moment in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is real. Right below our feet is the meeting place of multiple tectonic plates, slowly moving and pushing ...

Marine geophysicists just published the widest survey of the Cascadia Subduction Zone to date. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a fault located off the Pacific Coast shoreline, from Northern California ...

The swarm of earthquakes in the Blanco Fracture Zone off the Oregon coast is part of a larger active system of faults, underwater volcanoes and actively spreading ridges that raise the risks of a ...

Monitors detected a small earthquake around 6:15 a.m. on Thursday morning around 80 miles off the Oregon coast near Yachats, according to the United States Geological Survey. A 2.6 earthquake occurred ...

At some point in the next 15 million years, the Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) will no long pose an earthquake threat to Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. That’s not a long time ...

A. MINUTE 0:00. The North American plate slides 57 feet west over the heavier Juan de Fuca plate, which moves east about an inch per year. The quake’s initial pressure wave travels through the Earth’s ...

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OKANOGAN, Wash. — A 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck early Wednesday morning near Okanogan. The epicenter was recorded about 27 miles northeast of the central Washington city. According to the Puget ...

SEATTLE — The threat of an earthquake at any given moment in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is real. Right below our feet is the meeting place of multiple tectonic plates, slowly moving and pushing ...