When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a major fault that runs offshore from Northern California to British Columbia, is best known ...

The Juan de Fuca Plate is slowly being subducted beneath the North American Plate along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which runs from northern California to British Columbia. This tectonic ...

Studies from the state of Oregon show that there is a roughly 37% chance of a Cascadia megathrust earthquake occurring in the next 50 years as pressure continues to build under the Juan de Fuca Plate.

Coos Bay, home to more than 15,000 people, lies within just eight miles of the Cascadia Subduction Zone: a megathrust fault where the Juan de Fuca plate slides beneath the North American plate.

Looking southward offshore from Oregon, oceanward is right, landward is left. The Juan de Fuca Plate, at right, covered by a smooth layer of sediment, collides with and is pushed under the North ...

The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that a major earthquake ...

One of the reasons for Thursday’s quake could be stress transfer from movement of the Juan de Fuca and North American ... kilometres of the continental plate into the Okanagan Valley.