An earthquake struck off the northern California coast on Tuesday, marking the strongest in the region in nearly two decades.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating "megathrust" earthquakes with magnitudes of 9.0 or higher. Such an event, which last occurred over 300 years ago, could trigger a tsunami ...

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake off the California coast briefly triggered a tsunami warning for parts of Northern California and ...

if and when a major Cascadia quake strikes, there won’t be time for an official warning for high-risk coastal areas along the subduction zone. “For an event that strong, the earthquake is your ...

Earthquakes and tsunamis a looming presence in Oregon. According to experts, "the big one" — a magnitude 8.0 or higher ...

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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ)-- The recent 7.0 earthquake that struck off the Northern California coast is reminding many residents along the West Coast of the impending 'Big One' expected to hit within the ...

An earthquake off the coast of northern California prompted a tsunami warning for southern Oregon coast Thursday.

We present a set of increasingly complex models in which we investigate how inertia, radiation damping, thermally activated non-linear rheology and off-megathrust splay-fault events affect sequences ...