Americans have long lived in fear of the 'Big One' - an earthquake so enormous it would devastate the West Coast. The harrowing images ... US cities in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone ...

Some Western states could soon see a "megaquake" due to an underwater fault line along the West Coast, a new study suggests.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

A recent study estimates that ten million people on the U.S. West Coast would be affected by a Cascadia subduction-zone quake. Three hundred years of tectonic pressure has now built up.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake that rocked the bottom of the South Island struck in a seismic environment poorly understood by scientists – but which poses a major tsunami hazard. The 2.43pm quake hit ...

Andaman Megathrust Zone: Located in the west, this active subduction zone is where the ... raised marine terraces along the northern Rakhine Coast, with some terraces dating from 1400 BC to ...

Covering nearly 25,000 miles, it includes countries such as Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and the west coasts ... especially subduction zones, where one plate ...

This is the zone where the Nankai Trough megaquake is ... learned that slow slip events were also being confirmed on the west coast of Canada. That was when I began analyzing the data.

The past six months have proven to be a tale of two Californias when it comes to atmospheric river events. While Northern ...

Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the locations where the largest deposits of strategic metals, such as copper, ...