Accidental landing of a research vessel in the San Andreas zone revealed the repeating patterns tribuldite in its core.
San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests – Nation and ...
A specific type of earthquake that can cause particularly intense shaking is more common than previously believed, some ...
Although Californians are relatively familiar with the San Andreas Fault, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is in many ways more dangerous. That fault, where the Juan de Fuca Plate is subsiding underneath ...
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 ...
Two fault systems on North America’s West Coast – the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault – may be ...
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.
When the tectonic subduction zone beneath the Pacific Northwest moves, it does so in dramatic fashion. Not only is ground shaking from a magnitude 9+ earthquake incredibly destructive, the event ...