Chiapas earthquake 2026: An M5.5 aftershock struck July 19 offshore Tapachula, exposing 8.5 million people to shaking from ...

The biological carbon pump moves carbon from near the ocean’s surface to deeper regions, maintaining the upper ocean’s ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. One component of this system is ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Cascadia Subduction Zone is “unusually quiet,” for a megathrust fault, making it more difficult for scientists to understand its behavior and structure. With help from ...

Even long-lived subduction zones eventually die, and scientists believe they are witnessing the slow death of one in the northern end of the Cascadia subduction zone. A new study using seismic data ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a vast, horseshoe-shaped belt around the Pacific Ocean that is the world's most seismically and volcanically active zone. This region contains roughly 75% of the world’s ...

Understanding the origins of the Ring of Fire, the most seismically active place on Earth, is famously difficult as geologic evidence is destroyed in the process. Now a new study suggests that ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Three Portland-area men were arrested in Sherwood after a multi-agency organized retail theft stop. Police recovered over $10,000 in stolen goods, and more charges may be coming. Smokehouse feeds ...

SEATTLE — Newly-released research led by the University of Washington (UW) showed that a feature scientists hypothesized was present along the Cascadia Subduction Zone is missing in places. What does ...

When Washingtonians talk about the possibility of a major earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the conversation typically focuses on the immediate impacts: the threat of casualties, building ...

A major Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the West Coast. During that earthquake, parts of California, Oregon and Washington could shake for up to five minutes, as the Juan de Fuca ...

On Jan. 26, 1700, one of the largest earthquakes in human history struck off the West Coast of the United States, causing a tsunami and significant changes to the coastline from southern British ...