Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

A recent Virginia Tech study reveals that the Pacific Northwest faces a heightened risk of catastrophic flooding and ...

Earthquake activity is now being reported in U.S. regions once considered geologically stable, prompting concern from ...

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...

Mayor Daniel Lurie and the Department of Emergency Management are launching "ReadySF," a revamped emergency preparedness ...

The loss of intertidal wetlands directly impacts ecosystem services such as water filtration, habitat for fisheries and ...

A new study from Virginia Tech warns that large swaths of the Pacific Northwest, including Northern California, Oregon, and ...

Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the mainland West Coast would be at risk if an earthquake erupts along the Cascadia subduction ...

The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed 57 lives and blasted the terrain of old-growth ...

To supplement the city's bare-bones emergency management team, Mayor Karen Bass turned to an Illinois-based disaster recovery ...

Mount St. Helens erupted, killing dozens and forever changing how the US monitors earthquakes. The volcano is still active ...