Researchers named the spring "Pythia’s Oasis" for Ancient Greece's Pythia, an oracle who sat in a temple above a crack in the ...

Scientists compared sediment deposits created by underwater landslides from earthquakes within the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

These are two very different fault systems, but the sediment record suggests that in the past, at least three San Andreas ...

The so-called “Big One” or Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake expected to trigger disruptive quakes throughout the West ...

New research offers the theory that the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate dives beneath another—actively breaking apart. The discovery, reported in ...

Construction workers and vehicles move around the Capitol. Gov. Kotek’s order to earthquake-proof state buildings comes as the state Capitol nears the end of a years-long, $598 million seismic ...

BANDON, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A 5.9-magnitude earthquake rumbled off the southern Oregon coast late Thursday night, and several people felt it onshore, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. No tsunami alerts ...

A Magnitude 5.9 earthquake rumbled off the Oregon Coast at 11:45 p.m. Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The relatively large temblor, taking place some 230 miles west of Bandon, was ...

LSU geologist Brandon Shuck led a study that discovered a tear in a tectonic plate off the coast of Vancouver Island.