PORTLAND, Ore. — Tomorrow marks the International Shakeout, when millions of people around the world will hold earthquake drills. In Oregon, the event coincides with a major discovery by local ...

Two of the West Coast's most dangerous fault lines might be more in sync than scientists have realized. A new study found that the two sleeping giants, the Cascadia subduction zone and the northern ...

The West Coast of North America is a geologically tumultuous zone where tectonic plates collide, subducting under and scraping past one another. Over the eons, this activity has regularly caused major ...

"It's kind of hard to exaggerate what a M9 earthquake would be like in the Pacific Northwest," says Dr. Chris Goldfinger, a paleoseismologist at Oregon State University and lead author of the new ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say there's new evidence that two of the best-known earthquake fault lines on the West Coast are in sync and that has the potential for a major disaster. A new study by ...

A Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest, and when it hits, scientists now believe, it could cause the San Andreas fault in California to go off. “It would be a very ...

Julia Shumway / Oregon Capital Chronicle The so-called “Big One” or Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake expected to trigger disruptive quakes throughout the West Coast could cause more damage than ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregonians have long known that a major earthquake could devastate the region in the next 50 years, but a new study suggests the impact could have implications for the entire ...

It’s like a plot from a Hollywood movie. A massive earthquake on one West Coast fault triggers other earthquakes far away, causing vast destruction over hundreds of miles. A new study out Tuesday ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- During an earthquake study conference in Long Beach, a local expert said California's infamous San Andreas fault is due for a massive ...