Crews are finishing up digging a 125-foot hole to install a test foundation that they'll use to test the earthquake-resistant ...

January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia subduction zone. Centuries later, the ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault ... a research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada who was not involved in the study. Wang's group is using ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating powerful earthquakes. The study found compact sediments along the coast of Washington and northern Oregon, a result that suggests that the ...

Jan. 26, 2025, marks 325 years since the last great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone. It’s a time to reflect on what we’ve learned about this largest fault system in the lower 48 states ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

The risk comes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is a fault line that ... a research geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, said to Popular Science. Using seismic imaging, which ...

The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT), a research project focused on the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ), was established in 2023 following a $15 million grant from the National Scie ...

Both of Wednesday’s earthquakes occurred within the Juan de Fuca Plate, but not quite along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is one of several subduction zones on the Pacific Ring of Fire where ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is created by the Juan de Fuca Plate sliding beneath the North American continental plate off the coast of Oregon. Toomey said the entire zone extends from Washington ...