One of the most dangerous faults in the United States, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, may be able to trigger an earthquake on ...

Two of the biggest fault lines in the world are synched together in a way that could lead to disastrous consequences, ...

Scientists are raising the alarm about a potential seismic catastrophe on the West Coast of North America. Recent studies ...

The relationship between the sites means an earthquake in one zone can trigger an earthquake in the other in a phenomenon ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that megaquakes in the Pacific Northwest might trigger California’s San Andreas Fault. A research ship’s navigational error revealed paired sediment layers showing ...

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in ...

Although Californians are relatively familiar with the San Andreas Fault, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is in many ways more ...

San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests – Nation and ...

A megaquake in the Pacific Northwest could trigger a large earthquake along California's San Andreas Fault, creating an unprecedented catastrophe up and down the Pacific Coast, a new study has found.

Scientists at Oregon State University say there's new evidence that two of the best-known earthquake fault lines on the West ...

The director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, Thomas Jordan, made an announcement recently that would have sent a chill down the spine of every Californian: that the San Andreas fault ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A new explanation for colliding faults could help explain mysterious fault lines that have mystified geologists for decades. The new explanation could explain everything from the quake ...