Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...

Science & Environment Cascadia earthquake tsunami threat may not be quite as bad as we thought (but it’s still bad) By Jes Burns (OPB) July 3, 2025 6 a.m.

Scientists are warning that a 100-foot, Doomsday-style tsunami is primed to hit the US West Coast at any moment. Yet ...

A catastrophic 100-foot tsunami could strike the US West Coast at any moment — and scientists are sounding the alarm.

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables ...

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a threat forecast for Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula after two powerful earthquakes struck nearby on Sunday.

Officials in Hawaii issued a tsunami watch on Saturday evening as a series of earthquakes, including a 7.4 magnitude one, struck off the Russian coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A doomsday tsunami is likely to strike the US in the near future, but scientists say it's better if it hits sooner rather ...