Confirming the megathrust fault line off Haida Gwaii offers a path to improve tsunami modelling in a zone that has produced ...

The Nankai subduction zone, in southern Japan, has hosted several large magnitude 8+ earthquakes during the last three ...

If you’re in Ocean Shores, or if you’re in parts of Westport, the evacuation time is 30 minutes, 60 minutes on foot, to high ...

Understand the Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismically active zone with over 75% of the world's volcanoes. Learn how it impacts ...

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Overnight, the Krasheninnikov Volcano in Kamchatka erupted for the first time in 600 years, Russia's RIA state news agency ...

The Northwest is itself overdue for a megaquake — one we are ready for on neither a personal nor political level.

Seattle’s unreinforced brick buildings are a disaster waiting to happen — and the cash to fix them isn’t there.

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the Russian coast last week should serve as a wake-up call for the U.S., which is "overdue" ...

A groundbreaking study has provided new insights into the forces that cause tectonic movements in Europe’s most seismically ...

The Pacific "Ring of Fire" is a seismically active zone encircling the Pacific Ocean, where frequent earthquakes and numerous ...

After a massive earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, a peninsula in the far east of Russia, on July 30, 2025, the world ...