Imagine: it’s a hot August morning in Vancouver. The province is in the grips of another summer heat wave and wildfires are raging in the north. Going about your morning, cell phones, including your ...
A new study suggests northern Oregon could experience stronger shaking during a major Cascadia earthquake than earlier models ...
Earthquake hazards pose major threats to communities worldwide, motivating sustained efforts to improve our ability to forecast seismic events and assess their impact. This collection presents ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Cascadia Subduction Zone is “unusually quiet,” for a megathrust fault, making it more difficult for scientists to understand its behavior and structure. With help from ...
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to California, the fault marks the convergence of the Juan de Fuca and North American ...
A megathrust earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest. But new imaging of undersea faults and fractures has given scientists even more information about the tectonic plates that will cause that ...