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A 600-mile fault beneath the Pacific Northwest has been locked for over 300 years, accumulating energy that could trigger a catastrophic earthquake. Supreme Court delivers major blow to Trump-era rule ...

Their whole life, producer Hannah Chinn has known about the Big One: a massive earthquake forecasted to hit the West Coast. Scientists say it’ll... When are we due for a giant earthquake? Scientists ...

Earthquake faults deep in the Earth can glue themselves back together following a seismic event, according to a new study led by researchers at the UC Davis. The work, published Nov. 19 in Science ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

New studies show that rocks can cement themselves together under the conditions found on a subducting fault. Scanning electron microscope images of quartz powder before (top) and after six and 24 ...

A “ghost forest” off the coast of Oregon is all that’s left of trees believed to have died during the last Cascadia subduction zone earthquake. Credit: iStock ...