Earthquake scientists are learning warning signs of the 'big one.' When should they tell the public?
Brian Atwater, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist emeritus, shows off tsunami-deposited mud. COPALIS BEACH, WASH. — When Japan issued its first-ever “megaquake” warning last week, Harold Tobin, ...
Jessica DePaolis (second from left) and the team of researchers studied and compared sedimentary core samples in Montague Island, Alaska, and found evidence that four of the past eight earthquakes ...
Off the coasts of southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and northern California lies a 600 mile-long strip where the Pacific Ocean floor is slowly diving eastward under North America. This ...
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Evidence points to a possible link between two major earthquake zones
Groundbreaking Discovery in Offshore Sediment Cores Two fault systems on North America's West Coast – the Cascadia subduction ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck Sunday evening at 7:21 p.m. PT about 35 miles northwest of Seattle, south of Port Townsend, according to preliminary reports from the USGS and the Pacific Northwest ...
The earthquake swarm off the Oregon coast continues – with almost 100 quakes in the past 48 hours – but experts say not to worry. While the major concern with big earthquakes this far from land is the ...
Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.
Groundbreaking research has provided new insight into the tectonic plate shifts that create some of the Earth's largest earthquakes and tsunamis. Groundbreaking research has provided new insight into ...
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