A study warns of a mega tsunami up to 1,000 feet high if a strong earthquake strikes the Cascadia fault, threatening US ...

The magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in1964 caused land to sink ... farms and converting them to intertidal marshes, and flooding coastal towns and forcing residents to abandon homes,” the ...

The magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in1964 caused land to sink ... farms and converting them to intertidal marshes, and flooding coastal towns and forcing residents to abandon homes," the ...

A Virginia Tech study warns that Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington face a significant risk of megatsunamis within 50 years.

The Great Alaska earthquake in 1964 lowered coastal ... to relocate to higher ground because of increased tidal flooding. Similar coastal earthquakes in Sumatra and Japan in more recent history ...

In some areas, the ground could sink 6 feet in the moments after an earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, researchers warned.

A powerful earthquake, combined with rising sea levels, could significantly increase flood risks in the Pacific Northwest, impacting thousands of residents and properties in northern California, ...

(A similar situation unfolded in the 1964 earthquake in Alaska ... 2 m of sudden coastal subsidence, dramatically raising sea level, expanding floodplains, and increasing the flood risk to ...

Potential flooding would affect five ... and it flooded coastal towns, forcing residents to abandon their homes; the 1964 Alaska earthquake forced the relocation of communities and airstrips ...

The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged in a court filing that it plans to terminate 781 grants, almost twice the ...

A slow-moving storm system in early April brought widespread flooding and over 150 tornadoes ... with particularly wet conditions along the Gulf of Alaska coast and the northern Southeast region.

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and... Read Story ...