PORTLAND, Ore. — Tomorrow marks the International Shakeout, when millions of people around the world will hold earthquake drills. In Oregon, the event coincides with a major discovery by local ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregonians have long known that a major earthquake could devastate the region in the next 50 years, but a new study suggests the impact could have implications for the entire ...

A Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest, and when it hits, scientists now believe, it could cause the San Andreas fault in California to go off. “It would be a very ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say there's new evidence that two of the best-known earthquake fault lines on the West Coast are in sync and that has the potential for a major disaster. A new study by ...

"It's kind of hard to exaggerate what a M9 earthquake would be like in the Pacific Northwest," says Dr. Chris Goldfinger, a paleoseismologist at Oregon State University and lead author of the new ...

Los Angeles is at risk of a major earthquake, but new research shows that the shaking from the "Big One" may not be as catastrophic as scientists initially feared. A new simulation of the shaking from ...

It’s like a plot from a Hollywood movie. A massive earthquake on one West Coast fault triggers other earthquakes far away, causing vast destruction over hundreds of miles. A new study out Tuesday ...

Julia Shumway / Oregon Capital Chronicle The so-called “Big One” or Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake expected to trigger disruptive quakes throughout the West Coast could cause more damage than ...

Scientists are raising the alarm about a potential seismic catastrophe on the West Coast of North America. Recent studies suggest that a massive earthquake along the Cascadia megathrust fault, which ...