Imagine a scenario where the Pacific Northwest gets pummeled by a magnitude nine earthquake, only to have California's most notorious fault line rupture hours or days later. Sounds like a disaster ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A major earthquake waiting to strike the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn’t the only natural disaster looming in the Pacific Northwest, new research shows. A powerful quake, ...

Most Americans hear "earthquake" and immediately picture California. Crumbling freeways, shaking skyscrapers, Hollywood hills on the slide. That picture is not wrong, exactly, but it is dangerously ...

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward shore.

A magnitude 2.1 earthquake struck Northwest Georgia near Varnell and Dalton on Monday afternoon.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KENTUCKY (FOX 56) — An earthquake was detected early Friday around 13 miles outside of Henderson in a well-known seismic zone. At ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Centuries later, the ancient quake has left clues for scientists to ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — February marks Earthquake Awareness Month, and the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management is commencing a campaign to increase preparedness. Earthquake Awareness Month ...